A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl has found a lost wedding ring using a toy metal detector bought on holiday.
Katie Spence from Dalgety Bay, Fife saved the day with her toy detector, after her dad’s schoolfriend lost his wedding ring in a harbour.
Dad Scott bought the metal detector in 2012 after Katie’s mum, Maria, lost her wedding ring during their honeymoon in Corsica. The toy detector was put in a garage after it failed to find the missing ring.
Scott got a call from his schoolfriend Neil Sneddon who had lost his wedding band in Aberdour Harbour, Fife.
The white gold ring slipped off his finger when Neil, a trainee NDT technician, was pulling a boat in.
Scott said: “Neil phoned me in a bit of a panic, asking if I could give him a hand. We agreed that it would have to wait till the tide went back out, and I went down with my daughter. She has this wee metal detector that I bought 10 years ago.
“When the tide went out, we spent quite a long time looking for Neil’s ring and just when we were about to pack up, Katie started shouting ‘It’s beeping, it’s beeping!’
“She had got her wee metal detector over the top of it and located it. It was great she found it, it was under a pile of seaweed.
“The tide had gone out and moved it, I thought it was a needle in a haystack. She’s a wee hero.”
Katie was given a cash reward for her efforts and was so happy she did a little dance on the beach.
Neil, from Kirkcaldy, Fife, said: “We were searching for about an hour and a half with metal detectors but I was looking for around an hour before they arrived. “
”It was a great moment, I couldn’t believe it.”
