HOME video clips showing missing Hampshire teenager Rosemary Edwards laughing and joking with her family have been released as the hunt for her continues.

Police have released the footage to illustrate Rosemary as a happy-go-lucky youngster and to show how her disappearance is so out of character.

The 15-year-old has now been missing from her family home in Dibden Purlieu for ten days.

The four video clips, shot between 2004 and 2007, portray Rosemary as a humorous and confident teenager who gets on well with her brother, Robert, and sister, Lucy.

One clip was filmed by Rosemary herself and shows her talking to the camera, saying, "I am bravely going where no one has been before" before filming Robert cleaning his teeth in the bathroom.

There are also shots of Rosemary and Lucy with their hair in towels, posing for the camera, and another video of the family on holiday as Rosemary sits on Robert's shoulders. Police spokesman Alan Smith said: "The videos show Rosemary as a happy, jovial girl who appears to be enjoying life. Running off as she has done is so totally uncharacteristic and totally unexpected."

Mr Smith added: "While we have conducted searches of areas where we know Rosemary frequented, the Forest is such a huge area and she might be hiding out in a part of the Forest we would not normally associate her going to."

Rosemary was due to return to Noadwood School as a prefect on the morning that her parents, David and Jennifer, found she was missing from her bedroom.

She had fallen out with her parents the previous evening in a dispute after she lost her part-time job at a local shop, and her parents last saw her at 10.30pm on September 4.