THROUGH your newspaper I wish to express my gratitude to a person unknown to me who recently rendered a service.

When shopping in the Ledbury branch of Somerfield, I realised on returning to the car with shopping that I had mislaid my spectacles.

Despite my immediate return to the checkout and customer service desk there was no trace of them. I drove home and after lunch telephoned the shop to be told they had not been handed in.

My car was standing in the drive and on going out to put it into the garage I was astonished to see the spectacles case sitting on the bonnet where they definitely had not been when I left Ledbury.

My name and address was in the case, therefore someone had given time and used petrol to drive to Colwall on my behalf. As I did not see this person my only hope of expressing my gratitude lies in the hope that he or she read the letters page of the Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter.

MRS M HOWARTH, Mathon Road, Colwall.