A BRIDE-to-be has been reunited with her engagement ring, which was found against the odds in a holiday park’s vacuum cleaner.

The 22-year-old nursery nurse, Anna Laskey, from Hambleton, near Selby, took the ring off to bathe her nine-month-old baby, Lucy, during a long weekend at a Faweather Grange Holiday Park, near Bingley, West Yorkshire.

Anna said: “I take it off quite regularly and always when I’m bathing Lucy because I don’t want it to scratch her. I took it off and she ran off and distracted me, and I must have just left it on the bathroom floor.”

Anna was given the ring, from jewellers Brown’s in Selby, by her fiancé Jonathan Thompson when he proposed on her birthday last August. The couple have been together for six years.

Anna realised she had left it behind a day later when she and Jonathan, a 28-year-old machinist, returned home to Hambleton.

She said: “My stomach was churning, I felt awful. It’s got such sentimental value for me and I just never thought I would ever get it back.”

She said the owner of the holiday park was very helpful and immediately got on to the cleaners.

“That afternoon she rang me and said, ‘We’ve found it in the bag of a vacuum cleaner in Bradford’. I just couldn’t believe it.”

Mark Morris, manager of Bradford-based cleaners On The Mark, said they had 30 vacuum cleaners which are emptied at the end of every day, so he had not held out much hope of finding the ring.

“We discovered that one of the vacs that came away from the holiday park had been taken straight to another job so that was our last hope. One of our cleaners looked inside the bag and there it was, sitting undamaged on the top of all this rubbish.”

Anna thanked the holiday park and cleaners and pledged to be more careful.

“I am forgetful and have lost purses on buses and mobile phones. But I don’t generally get things back that I lose and I’d never lost anything as important as this. It was such a relief for me and Jonathan and I’m keeping a close eye on it now,” she said.