A MASSIVE police hunt for a Bolton grandmother suffering from depression who disappeared for more than 24 hours with her two young grandsons has ended with them all found safe and well.

Karen Jackson, aged 46, went missing on Wednesday afternoon with her grandchildren Jessie, aged three and Luke aged five, but police reported they were found early on Thursday night.

The children's mother Hazel Jackson, aged 23 -- who also has a one-year-old son Ben -- called police to report them missing after her mother failed to return them from her house in Huxley Street, Halliwell.

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