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Bob and Maggie Powick, of Orchard Park Close, Hungerford, were delighted when Mrs Powick, a 44-year-old a community staff nurse for the area, fell pregnant.
But their joy turned to heartbreak when they were told their first child had died in the womb.
Mrs Powick said: “On January 11, we went to hospital and everything was fine. Then on the following Tuesday the midwife said the baby’s heart had stopped.”
The sad confirmation came following a hospital scan and Mrs Powick then faced the ordeal of a 14-hour labour at Great Western Hospital, Swindon, knowing there would be no joyous outcome.
Leona was delivered at 10.40am on January 16 and the couple spent precious moments photographing their daughter.
She was buried on Thursday, February 7, and her parents held a wake for family and friends in the Cygnet Room at the Three Swans, Hungerford High Street.
It was only later that the couple realised their camera – a bright blue, Fuji Finepix Z20 in a black case – was missing.
Mrs Powick said: “Although hospital staff took a picture of Leona, the camera contains all of our photos of my husband and I with our little girl. These photos are so precious to us.”
Mrs Powick and husband Rob, a 50-year-old security officer, have scoured the car park area in vain and no one had handed in the camera to staff at the Three Swans.
Now the couple has appealed to readers of the Newbury Weekly News for help.
If anyone has found or been sold or offered a camera matching the description above, please contact reporter John Garvey, email

, or call (01635) 564528.



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