Hunt to reunite woman with false teeth left in cafe

The bottom set of false teeth are waiting to be collected from a cafe in Colne

The owner of a coffee shop in Lancashire is on a quest to find the person who left half a set of dentures behind.

Michaela Wilson found the bottom set - thought to belong to a woman - wrapped up in a tissue at the Pendle Kitchen Coffee Shop in the Arcade in Colne a week ago, but has been unable to trace find their owner.

She said she desperately wanted to find whoever was missing them and is happy to reunite them discreetly.

"I retrieved them and carefully put them in a burger box for them to be collected, but we haven't heard anything," she said.

Vomiting into a bin

"I didn't tell one of the girls who works here and she found them and absolutely jumped out of her skin when she opened the box," Ms Wilson said.

"People usually leave umbrellas, or bags of shopping, not teeth.

"We thought she'd figure out soon enough she'd lost them and come back but after a few days I thought maybe she was embarrassed," she said.

"If she doesn't fancy coming in to pick them up, I'll post them out to her, or drop them off, she doesn't have to come in."

It's not the first time false teeth have gone AWOL, a holidaymaker who lost his false teeth while vomiting into a bin on a boozy night out in Benidorm was stunned when they turned up in the post 11 years on.

And in 2017 lost false teeth were found taped to a tree by an amused runner in Skegness.