Family hoped mum could be laid to rest wearing missing wedding dress sent to Lanarkshire company for cleaning

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A specialist clothing cleaning company based in Lanarkshire is at the centre of a mystery over a missing wedding dress which a family hoped to lay their late mum to rest wearing.Linda Galloway, 62, died last Friday following a lengthy battle with cancer and her family planned for her to wear the champagne-coloured dress she wore on her wedding day on her “final journey”.

However, they discovered it had been sent to Wedding Dress Cleaning Scotland, who are currently based near Motherwell, to be cleaned and didn’t return.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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My dad didn’t know about it either. "He asked us to choose an outfit for our mum to wear for the funeral director and my sister said she would’ve wanted her in the wedding dress, but that wasn’t going to happen.”Jodi tried chasing up the dress