FOREST mum Tammi Dallaston has been keeping the army of volunteers looking for five-year-old April Jones on the march.

The former Forester reporter joined the search parties along the riverbank first thing last Tuesday, the morning after five-year-old April went missing.

But it was when she returned back to the leisure centre tired and hungry that Tammi realised she could be more use helping to co-ordinate the major operation to keep hundreds of volunteers fed and watered.

Since then she has been working flat out in the leisure centre café which has seen donations of food pouring in from all over the country to feed those taking part in what has been an unprecedented search operation.

She has also helped April's godmother Mair Raftree make pink ribbons, put together food parcels for April's family, attended the procession and church service on Sunday, helped organise the release of Chinese lanterns on Monday and given numerous TV interviews.

She said: "It's incredible how everybody has pulled together. I think the same thing would happen in the Forest because it's a close knit community and full of families that go back generations.

"When people have a shared history, when they've shared Christmases and birthdays and things that matter, they become very close."

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