A pensioner with a potentially fatal stress-related condition wants to thank the person who found her handbag.

Jean Newman had returned home after a shopping trip in Halstead to find she had lost her bag.

She was reunited with it three days later, after it was handed to staff at Sainsbury's in the High Street.

Although a stressful time for anyone in the same situation, Jean is even more grateful for its safe return because she suffers from anaphylaxis, which she believes is connected to stress.

It is a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction.

* Full story in this week's Halstead Gazette.