As you drive into the small village of Kingston Gorse there are posters of little Sarah on every shop window.

Her face smiles out from homes, shops and the backs of cars showing how much the community has wanted to help.

Hundreds of local people took to the fields around the village the morning after Sarah went missing.

They have been desperate to do anything they can to help and are hopeful to the last that Sarah will be found safe and well, despite today's news police have found the body of a little girl.

Today's discovery has shocked neighbours, who have been living doors away from the Payne family, and who joined them in their desperate wishes for Sarah to come home.

One neighbour who lives in Kingston Lane said: "My wife and I joined the hunt for Sarah because we wanted to do something.

"You are always hopeful that police are going to find her. On that first day we hoped she had had an argument with one of her brothers or sister and was just hiding.

"As they days had gone on we have listened to every news bulletin in the hope of news.

"I have a little granddaughter of Sarah's age and we have been making sure she is always safe.

"This has just brought it home to us that although we think we are nannying our children you cannot do enough to keep them safe.

"Although I have not lived there long this is a very tight knit community and it has been dreadful. This is a country lane and no one has reason to come down here."