A woman has been praised after stepping in to save the day after her husband- who is a huge Rangers fan- lost his passport on the way to catch his flight to Seville.
Kevin McLeod set off from his home in Loch Lomond to meet friends in Edinburgh at around 2pm on Monday before they set off to drive to Manchester airport for a flight to Gibraltar on Tuesday morning.
However, the 45-year-old almost had his plans destroyed when he discovered his passport was missing in the middle of their 235 mile drive to England- prompting a panicked late night phone call to his wife, Dawn Adam.
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According to The Daily Record , The Scots handyman and his pals raced back to Lancaster Services in the hope he had somehow left it there during a pitstop, while his devoted wife was desperately calling around businesses at the Moto Services to see if anyone had handed it in.
Despite a late night search of the service station car park, the vital travel document wasn't there and a devastated Kevin was forced to drop his upset mates off at the airport before returning to collect his work's van vehicle, which he had left in East Lothian.
The red-faced Rangers fan then discovered the wayward passport in the footwell of his motor and faced a tearful drive home, arriving back at around 7am.
Knowing how devastated her hubby was, business consultant Dawn set about trying to book him new flights to Seville - forking out £900 for the last minute one way tickets.
Speaking of the nine-hour ordeal, Dawn said: “It must’ve been at around 10.30pm when I got the phone call telling me he couldn’t find his passport.
“I told him not to panic and to go through his case, his man bag and to make sure everything was there. But it wasn’t and nobody could find it. It hadn’t fallen down the side of the seat, nothing.
“He thought it had to be at the service station so I started calling round BP, Costa, WH Smith, to see if anyone had handed it in while they drove back to it.
“Someone suggested I call the duty manager at Moto Services to see if he could help. So again, there’s me sitting in the dark, Googling all these phone numbers.
“This lovely man called Stewart was on the line and he said it was a nightmare and they had had so many Scottish people coming down through the service centre that day.
“There had been a few dramas of lost wallets and various other things but this was the most last minute one. They went out with torches and were looking around the car park, under vehicles. They were so good.
“They were out there just as Kevin and the boys arrived but by that point, they knew there was nothing there. I asked him if he wanted me to drive across to Dunbar to check his work van which he’d left there.
“I was half dressed, I had my boots on and had taken the dogs out, but he called me back and said that even if it was there, he still wouldn’t make the flight from Manchester.
“He was so excited to fly to Gibraltar because that’s where we were married at the top of the rock six years ago.
“Kevin was quite insistent that his two friends still went but he was just devastated on the road up. I was trying to keep him on the phone so he wasn’t too upset.
“I don’t think either of us got any sleep on Monday night or Tuesday morning. He then found the passport in the footwell of his van.
“As he drove home, utterly broken, I couldn’t let that be the end of the story. I knew he had his passport so I booked him two flights."
Dawn added: “Rangers is Kevin’s first love - which he always says to me.
“All through his years in the army, any time he got leave, he used to run off across the country or back to the UK from wherever he was posted to watch the games.
“He was just desperate to get out and go and have some fun and we managed to get him a ticket through the UEFA ballot.
"It was another £900, but would help make his dream come true.
“The moral of the story is that next time, I need to arrange to be the tour manager for them, to hold the passports, keys and wallets while getting to spend three days in the sun.”
Kevin was thankfully able to make it in time after flying from Glasgow to London Gatwick before jetting on to Seville Airport where he landed at around 3pm.
