A woman has made a desperate plea to help trace her mum's ring which has a great deal of sentimental meaning but was lost during a bus ride in South Lanarkshire.

Emma's mum was travelling on the number 18 First Bus service between East Kilbride and Rutherglen at around 7am on Wednesday Morning when she noticed she had lost the chain which held her nanna's wedding ring.

Emma explained in Twitter post that her nanna had passed away, therefore it would mean a lot for the pair to get it back. 

She wrote: "Looking for help, My mum was on the 18 bus, EK to Rutherglen, 7-7:30 this morning and lost a chain, on the chain was my Nanna's wedding ring.

"Sadly she has passed away so the ring has lots of sentimental value. If anyone has found it please let me know."

The post has received a great deal of attention racking up more than 1,000 retweets from people helping in the search.

One Twitter user wrote: "Fingers crossed it turns up. Stranger things have happened."

Another advised: "In my experience with these things, is go there, go to the bus station, find the bus, speak to the driver, go there now and today."