A DRAMA faced by soap star Vicky Entwistle has had a happy ending -- thanks to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

The Oswaldtwistle actress, who now lives in the Ribble Valley, has had her stolen rings returned after making an appeal in the Evening Telegraph.

Vicky, who plays the long-suffering Janice Battersby in Coronation Street, was reunited with the two rings after they were handed in at her parents' Accrington newsagents.

PC Jane Lawrenson said a woman handed the engagement ring and the prayer ring in -- and waived any right to the £300 reward put up by the star.

PC Lawrenson said: "If the Lancashire Evening Telegraph had not described them in so much detail and given it prominence they would not have been handed in."

The rings -- which Vicky designed herself -- were stolen last week from the Tanning Centre, in Water Street, Accrington.

She said she took off all her jewellery while on the sunbed placing it on a chair in the enclosed cubicle.

While driving back to the studios in Manchester she remembered she had forgotten to pick up her rings and when she got back to the centre Vicky was told they had been stolen.