A NEW year’s miracle has taken place in Oxford this week after a distraught young woman appealed in the Oxford Mail for help finding a treasured possession.

Viky Teasdale, 33, lost a blue glass earring made from her father’s ashes on a shopping trip last Wednesday after visiting her family in Kennington over the Christmas break.

The earring had been made for her wedding day on New Year’s Eve 2014, just a few months after her father Ralph Pearson died aged 60, for her ‘something blue’.

On Saturday, December 31 Mrs Teasdale issued a plea in the Oxford Mail for help finding the earring including a run-down on where she had visited in Oxford city centre.

It was picked up by David Harrison, general manager of the Byron burger restaurant in George Street, who decided to have another look.

He said: “The lady had called on the day she lost it asking if we had found anything but we had already swept the floor.

“I saw the article online and thought I would have a look in our station bins - they just have napkins and things like that - and found the bin bag from the day she came in, and I found her earring. 

“It was sheer luck; I just thought I would give it another chance. 

“The article had her name on it so I contacted her on Facebook. She was shocked and delighted.”

Mrs Teasdale’s sister has since collected the earring from Byron and it has now been reunited with its owner in Sheffield, where it is going to be re-straightened.

A Facebook post initially sent out by Mrs Teasdale when she realised the earring had gone missing was shared more than 2,300 times and she and the family had scoured Oxford shops - including H&M, Marks & Spencer and Primark - prior to the good news.

Mrs Teasdale thanked Byron and the Oxford Mail for tracking down the earring, adding: “This is the best start to a new year ever.”