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Elderly couple find lost car after they offered reward when they FORGOT where they parked it

<em>Emmanuel Elliott and Hilda Farmer thought they parked their car in a street in Cheltenham (Geograph/stock photo)</em>
Emmanuel Elliott and Hilda Farmer thought they parked their car in a street in Cheltenham (Geograph/stock photo)

An elderly couple who were offering a reward to help locate their missing car after they forgot where they parked it have finally been reunited with their vehicle.

Emmanuel Elliott, 81, and partner Hilda Farmer, 79, offered to pay £100 to anyone that could help them locate their silver Ford Fiesta that they parked in Cheltenham on Friday.

However, after a search that went on for days, the couple have finally found the car St George’s car park – covered in parking fines.

The couple, from Gloucester, thought the car was parked down a quiet street but after it was found in the car park, Ms Farmer said she must have ‘dreamt it when I realised I couldn’t find the car’.

<em>The couple said they parked about a mile and a half from Cheltenham General Hospital (Rex)</em>
The couple said they parked about a mile and a half from Cheltenham General Hospital (Rex)

Mr Elliott told the BBC: ‘It’s been quite a five days. I hope I can remember how to drive!’

The couple had enlisted the help of family and friends to search the city for the past four days and resorted to offer a reward to help them track it down.

Ms Farmer dropped off Mr Elliott at Cheltenham General Hospital before finding somewhere to park – which turned out to be the car park, some 900m away.

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It was spotted by Ms Farmer’s granddaughter, with a little help from her social media followers.

The three tickets placed on the car will not be immediately cancelled by Cheltenham Borough Council.

However, a spokesman said the couple could appeal, adding: ‘We will of course look on this as sympathetically as we can in the circumstances that have been highlighted.’