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Radio 5 Live,1 min
‘It’s marvellous’: Widower is reunited with wife’s voicemail
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A husband described the moment he heard his late wife’s voicemail message after it was accidentally deleted from his phone as “marvellous�. Stan Beaton, from Mirfield had kept the voicemail since his wife Ruby died in 2003 but the message was deleted after a phone upgrade from Virgin Media. Stan said he listened to the voicemail when he felt “down in the dumps� and was immediately “cheered up�. He added “Ruby’s voice was more important than anything else. It really did devastate me when it went missing.� The telecoms company managed to recover the message and are giving copies of it to Stan. This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on January 28th 2015.
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