Needle in a hay stack search for engagement ring

A mother has thanked farm staff who helped find her diamond engagement ring after she lost it in a huge straw pit on a family day out.

Lynn Stevenson, from Glasgow, her husband and four-year-old daughter were in the straw area at Briarlands Farm near Stirling when she realised her wedding and engagement ring had slipped from her finger. Her husband found the wedding ring but there was no sign of its partner.

The couple spent the rest of the afternoon sifting through the straw helped by staff, who used metal detectors and torches.

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