PHOTOGRAPHS of great sentimental value went missing when a Bolton woman lost her camera at the weekend.

Mrs Ann Lockley, 52, of Redcar Road, Little Lever, does not know if she left the camera at her son's wedding reception or whether someone took it on purpose.

But she made an appeal to whoever had the camera, saying that they could keep it as long as the film is returned.

Ann said: "I don't know if a guest at the wedding picked up the camera by accident or if it was stolen.

"If it was stolen I would ask for the return of the film. I am not too bothered about the camera. That can be replaced, the photographs can't." Ann's son Stephen, 22, married Beverley Coggins, 24, at Little Lever United Reformed Church on Saturday.

She last had the camera at Stephen and Beverley's wedding reception held at the British Rail Staff Association club on Green Lane that evening.

She added: "I took photographs at the wedding and at the reception.

"Of course we have the official photographs but the ones I took were for my own enjoyment.

"There are photographs of four grandchildren, three of them bridesmaids, one an usher.

"There are also photographs of the children dancing and enjoying themselves."

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