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A woman who lost her husband’s wedding ring found it using a photo of her dog, a location feature on her phone and a kind metal detectorist.
Emily Wolstenholme, 35, lost the ring after husband Wayne, 34, asked her to hold on to it while he went for a swim. It fell out of her pocket when Emily took out her phone to take a snap of their dog Alan on the beach at Folkestone, Kent, on April 4. She only realised it was gone when they got home.
She said: “We were absolutely gutted, and I was sure we’d never see it again.”
Brendan Sansom, a metal detectorist, found the wedding ring in the sand (Emily Wolstenholme / SWNS)
Emily used her phone's Google location feature to direct Brendan to the spot (Emily Wolstenholme / SWNS)But then she spotted the ring in a photo of the dog and used her phone’s location feature to get the co-ordinates
And after posting about it on social media, metal detectorist Brendan Sansom offered to look for it.
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Three days after Emily lost the ring Brendan and his friend Kris Alden found it 50 yards from where it was dropped on Sunny Sands beach. Emily, who has been married to Wayne for 14 years, said: “The sea can do a lot with a tiny ring, so we were over the moon.
“We drove round to pick it up and we couldn’t be more grateful. The kindness of strangers is amazing.” She is now banned from looking after it in future.