Woman Reunited With Diamond Ring

Published on 08/11/10

The company put a camera in to the cesspit tank, filtered the waste and even sent a brave worker into the tank with a metal detector to help Joan Speirs.
But by an astonishing co-incidence, an employee from the same small family firm stumbled across the ring more than two years later at a sewage works and it has now be returned to its delighetd rightful owner.

Mrs Spiers, 67, Conservative leader of Reigate and Banstead Council, in Surrey, was at the Charlwood Hotel, near Gatwick, when she lost the antique gold ring, set with a valuable certified diamond and a dozen smaller diamonds.