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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Travel
Milo Boyd

Inside the giant shop where you can buy millions of items lost on planes

Countless sex toys, shrunken heads and a live rattlesnake are just some of the weird and wonderful things found in bags left at major airports.

Last summer travel hubs across the world descended into chaos as demand for air travel following coronavirus lockdowns outstripped the capacity of cutback staffing numbers, leading to huge queues, delays and many lost items of luggage.

The number of missing bags reached a 10-year high in the UK, where 26 million were lost and concourses were given over to store great mounds of items separated from their owners.

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