Facebook is helping police try to find a grammar school boy who went missing after reading George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. Police forces across the country have been asked to look out for Arthur, and postal workers across the UK have joined the search for him. Facebook has refused to comment directly on the case but is understood to be helping the police and the charity Missing People, which is also involved in the hunt. The job of finding Arthur has been challenging partly because he left without a phone or any electronic equipment. I know you will be upset but please understand that I have to do this, from Arthur.” The letter had been posted in Devon.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2016 17:06 UTC