A MOTHER has been reunited with a necklace and bracelet which she lost when her bag was stolen, thanks to Adver readers.

Last week, Claire Haynes, of Taw Hill, appealed through the paper after she lost silver jewellery which had her children’s names, Ruby and Oscar, printed on as well as their handprints and fingerprints.

The bracelet and half the necklace were handed into the police station just after the story was printed, and the other half was found by Madeline James in Bowood Road, just off Kingshill Road, a few days later.

“I am overwhelmed. The only things I haven’t got back are the purse and phone but that’s all replaceable,” said Claire.

“I had a phone call from the police after it went in the paper saying the necklace had been handed in without the Ruby part along with the bracelet.

“Thank you to the Adver and the person who went to the police, and a massive thank you to Madeline because that is just the missing piece. That was the last bit, it’s just fantastic.”

Claire, 31, put her bag down in the sunken garden in Town Gardens to take her three-year-old son to the toilet on March 19 but when she went back for it, it had gone.

It was later handed into Nationwide in the town centre but the necklace and bracelet, which Ruby and Oscar gave her for her 30th birthday, had been taken out, as well as her purse and mobile phone.

Claire, who is a mobile hairdresser, went to gold and silver dealers across the town in a bid to find them and asked people to keep an eye out for them through the appeal in the Adver last week.

The bracelet and the half of the necklace which says Oscar were found near Commonweal School, and the other half of the necklace, which says Ruby, was found in Bowood Road.

Madeline, of Bowood Road, said her neighbour had found it in her drive and left it on the baby seat of Madeline’s bike because she thought it belonged to one of her children.

“As soon as I saw the half of the necklace I thought if that was me I would be gutted,” said Madeline.

“I didn’t even know of the story. I mentioned it to my husband and he said he had seen it in the Adver.”