A prosthetic leg, a life-sized Spiderman doll and "enough musical instruments to form a band" have been lost on London's travel network. More than 300,000 items were left on the capital's trains and buses last year as Transport for London received a record haul of missing goods. Aside from the more peculiar finds, thousands of tablets, umbrellas and wallets were also handed in to TFL's lost property office - described as a "wonder emporium" by manager Paul Cowan. Alongside the daily haul of around 150 mobile phones, the office has received a full-size house carpet, a judge's wig and a hoard of musical instruments including drum kits. Last year 22% of the 302,714 items handed in were returned to their rightful owners including a brown envelope containing £15,000 and an urn of ashes that had been kept by workers at the lost property office for almost seven years. Mr Cowan, who calls his job "one of the best", said the number of items lost on the network would increase as more passengers used the service. "The number of properties lost is fascinating, every day we're getting well over 1,200 items of property found across the network, it's staggering," he said. "The volume...
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