ON Bank Holiday Monday, I took my 10-year-old granddaughter with me into Blackburn town centre. She had her birthday money -- some £20, a fortune to her -- in a money tube, with a strong white cord attached.
Rosie was itching to spend some of it, of course, but I said that she should try to save it and buy something she really needs. I was wrong to stop her because on our way home on the No 22 bus back to Brothers Street her money was lost, or stolen from her.
The tube with the money was not handed in to the bus driver, so whoever found it is by law guilty of "stealing by finding."
Rosie said: "I would have given them a reward, Grandad."
R NEWSOME (Mr), Brothers Street, Blackburn.
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