A pair of teenage girls have been arrested on suspicion of abducting a three-year-old girl in Newcastle.

A huge search was launched for the child when she disappeared from a Primark store in Northumberland Street at around 5pm on Wednesday.

"It was quickly established that she had left the store with two teenage girls who she did not know," Northumbria Police said.

She was found around an hour later in Gosforth by a police officer and reunited with her "distressed" mother.

Two girls, aged 13 and 14, are being held on suspicion of child abduction.

Chief Inspector Dave Gould said: