A woman was today convinced that a ring found inside an apple is the same one she lost 27 years ago.

On Monday, the Evening Gazette told how Jamie-Louisa Arnold, 12, discovered the piece of jewellery when she bit into the apple by the swimming pool at Waldegraves Holiday Park in Mersea Island.

Now, housewife Rosalind Pike claims the ring was bought for her by her parents on a family holiday in 1975 when she was just ten years old.

Ring of confidence - Rosalind Pike with her mother Delphene Banks

Mrs Pike, 37, of Mile End Road, Colchester, said: "I couldn't believe it when I opened the paper. I couldn't read the rest of it I was so excited."

She said her parents bought her the ring 27 years ago at a small jewellers in Norfolk but shortly afterwards she lost it at Colchester swimming pool.

Published Wednesday August 21, 2002

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