A mother missing for almost three weeks has been found safe and well.

Farrah Fadli disappeared from her home in Ayr having taken her children McKenzie Scullion, 10, and Eva Kerr, four, with her when she left on October 12.

Following a police appeal saying officers were "very concerned" at the 29-year-old's disappearance from her home in Thornyflat Drive, she dropped the children off at a friend's house in Irvine on Friday October 14.

Police said that she has now been traced and is safe and well.