A Sunningdale couple turned into detectives when they went to the rescue to reunite a lady with her lost handbag after she left it behind on a Bristol pavement.

Judith Gunton, from Richmond, was taking care of her two-month-old grandson, Luke, on Monday, July 20, when, after getting preoccupied with rearranging things in his pushchair, she accidentally left the bag behind on the pavement.

She said: “I was so preoccupied with looking after him that when he got fed up of with being in the pushchair, I decided to carry him and I managed to leave my handbag on the pavement.

“A couple from Sunningdale saw it and decided to try to track me down. And yes, it had all my credit cards, passport, driving licence, mobile phone, money and heaven only knows what in it.

“As they’ll have realised on looking through the relatively small bag, my whole life was in there, so when, much later, I discovered it missing, I was in a real panic!

"In true detective style they tracked down not only my partner but also my daughter-in-law. She was having her hair cut and I was on grandmotherly duty for an hour!

“I arrived at our appointed meeting spot to find her on the phone mouthing at me ‘people have found your handbag’!”

Eventually, Judith met the couple, whose names she doesn’t know, outside the city’s Primark store.

She added that it only occurred to her last Thursday that a bracelet, made by her son and Luke’s father, who sadly died in March, was also in the bag.

She said: “I’d like to add to the hug of relief and small contribution towards a celebratory drink I gave them, by saying a huge thank you for their public-spiritedness and detective work!

“Getting replacements would have been horribly time-consuming, coupled with worry about the wrong hands my things might have fallen into, and of course the bracelet is irreplaceable. I do hope I didn’t delay you too horribly. You were out and out stars!”

Were you the kind-hearted couple or do you know them? E-mail nagius@berksmedia.co.uk or ring 0118 955 3317.