Bbm - the way this is worded sounds like he dropped the children at school and then got a call from them later, but could just be the wording of the journalist. It would make sense though if it was he who dropped them off so she could be sure to be free to join the work call without being held up.
"Mr Ansell said he or Nicola would regularly drop the children off, aged six and nine, at the local primary school, before taking their Springer spaniel for a walk along the river nearby.
But after dropping the children off at school on Friday morning he then got a call alerting him something was amiss.
Mr Ansell said: “I rang police, I got a call from the school regarding somebody who had found Willow and Nikki’s phone and the dog lead and harness on the bench.
“We take the kids to school and take the dog down there, either myself or Nikki, nearly every day.”
Missing Nicola Bulley - all we know from muted phone call to abandoned dog lead