THE daughter of an elderly man has renewed her appeal for help in finding her father who has been missing for seven weeks.

Bernard Hallas, 84, who lived alone in Bradley, has not been seen since the evening of Tuesday, December 18.

The father-of-two vanished after catching a bus to Marsden and back into Huddersfield bus station.

It is thought he then walked away down High Street and Ramsden Street.

His daughter, Andrea Gill said she cannot understand how her father can have vanished without trace and says she is resigned to him having died.

She said: “This Tuesday will be seven weeks since his disappearance.

“That someone could just completely disappear in this way is hard to understand.

“Given his physical frailty he was not in a position to get somewhere inaccessible.

“There’s not going to be a happy ending after such a long time.”

She thinks that the bad weather has not helped in finding him as dog walkers, a traditional source of finding missing people, have not been able to get out in their usual numbers.

Andrea added: “We are just dazed, really. The Examiner has been great in keeping mentioning him regularly and we just want to keep jogging people’s memories.”

Mr Hallas suffered from a severe medical condition and was captured on CCTV on a bus in his pyjamas, hat, coat and shoes.

He lived alone in Bradley but was known to have links with the Newsome area.

Anyone with information about his disappearance or whereabouts is asked to call 999 immediately.

Police are also searching for another missing Huddersfield man, Alan Holt, 40, who was reported missing on October 2 but was last physically seen at his home on Albany Road in Dalton, on September 27.

Since his disappearance police believe he has been sleeping rough in the area near the Snooty Fox public house in Kirkgate, Wakefield.

Alan is described as being white, 5ft 8ins tall and of slim build. He is balding on top, with black hair at the back and sides. He also has a tattoo on his left shoulder that reads, ‘On Fire’.

Anyone with information should call Pc Karen Truelove at the Kirklees police Missing Person Unit via 101.

One missing man from the Huddersfield area who has been found is Neil Bryson, a father of two from Scholes.

The married NHS manager vanished without trace on November 27 and his car was found abandoned at Yateholme Reservoir.

Sadly, his body was eventually discovered last month.

A funeral service takes place on February 8 at 11am at Christ Church, New Mill.