I AM writing in the hope that you might be able to help my little two-year-old girl who lost her favourite teddy – which goes by the name of Bed Ted!

We stayed in the Four Pillars Hotel in Abingdon Road, and mislaid Bed Ted somewhere along the pavement between the hotel and the Head of the River pub at Folly Bridge.

My daughter probably dropped him as she fell asleep. There can only have been a gap of about five minutes before we realised he had gone, but someone must have picked him up for some strange reason.

I’m not sure why anyone else would want him. Let’s just say he’s well loved (covered in dirt and marks from previous times he’d been dropped and run over by the pushchair). And I’m not sure who’s more distraught, her or us! She can’t sleep without Bed Ted and he has been discontinued from the shop he came from.

I enclose a picture of the bear – and really hope he can be found and returned home.

Mel Maylen (distraught mum)

If you know of Bed Ted’s whereabouts, please contact Oxford Mail Letters at letters@oxfordmail.co.uk or call 01865 425494.