WHEN young Kyle Warren lost his treasured "comfort" blanket a bus company laid on a special express delivery service to return it.

Kyle, aged seven, of McKenzie Street in Bolton, had agreed to lend the blanket to a friend of the family who needed it for a school play.

But disaster struck when his uncle Daniel dozed off on a Blue Bus on the way to work and forgot the blanket, which he was supposed to be delivering to her.

Kyle's gran Lyndis Sunter phoned the bus company and within 45 minutes of her call the blanket was delivered to her door.

"I knew the blanket meant a lot to Kyle and he would have been absolutely devastated to have lost it," said Mrs Sunter, aged 55, of Athlone Avenue.

"It was a lovely thing for the bus company to do, I was amazed. This wasn't a gold watch or a wallet full of money but to Kyle it is irreplaceable." She added: "I would like to say a big thank you to Blue Bus."

Kyle's mother Rachel said her son had adopted a dog called Eka on the internet and had bought a toy dog to represent it.

"He picked a blanket from a car boot sale to keep his toy Eka warm. It means a lot to him and I'm glad it was returned before he found out," she said.

Mrs Sunter got through to Ian Laing, operations manager at Blue Bus in Horwich, at 9am on Wednesday morning -- and the blanket was delivered to her house at 9.45am.

"I could tell by the way she spoke that it was quite important to her," he said.

"One of the drivers took a company car over to drop the blanket off. It was a pleasure, we like to look after our passengers."