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After 67 years, Violet Booth was reunited with her engagement ring which she tossed into a field in 1941 after a disagreement with her fiancé, Samuel.

Violet Booth, then Violet Bailey, threw the diamond ring away after arguing with her husband-to-be, Samuel.

The childhood sweethearts, who were out walking, quickly made up. But after a fruitless search for the ring, they believed it was lost for ever.

Yet, almost seven decades later, Mrs Booth, now 88, is able to wear it again after her grandson found it buried in the field.

It took two hours for Leighton Boyes, 33, to unearth the ring with his metal detector. His grandmother, who wept as she put it back on her finger, said it was the perfect way to remember her husband, who died 15 years ago.

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