I’ve left my false teeth and a pantomime horse in my hotel room

The prop was discovered in the Leeds Central Travelodge in the room of a cast member who had stayed there after performing at the City Varieties Music Hall.

A python, a winning EuroMillions lottery ticket, a bucket of live crabs and a set of diamond-encrusted false teeth are among the other weird and wonderful items relegated to the group’s lost and found offices across the country last year.

Spokeswoman Shakila Ahmed said: “Each year our lost and found departments provide plenty of revelations. From keys to a Bugatti, Harry Potter’s original wand, a micro pig, breast implants to a script from a well-known British soap, our customers’ left behinds demonstrate what a cross section of people stay in our 527 hotels.”

The winning EuroMillions ticket was left under a mattress where the guest had put it for safekeeping - but he overslept and forgot to pick it up the next morning.

A woman whose boyfriend had proposed to her the night before also forgot about her safe hiding place for her new £10,000 Tiffany engagement ring.

She had kept in the box under her pillow at the Oxford Peartree hotel as it did not fit and only remembered on the way home, but was fortunately reunited with it.

A Rolex watch worth £50,000, a stamp album worth £250,000, and a diamond-encrusted iPhone 5 were among the other valuable items on the inventory.

More than 20,000 books were also left behind in the last 12 months, 700 of which were from the Fifty Shades of Grey erotic fiction series, the chain said.

Books were among the 10 most commonly-forgotten items, as were phone and laptop chargers, pyjamas or clothes, teddies, toiletry bags, electricals including laptops and tablets, sat-navs, mobile phones, toothbrushes and bags or suitcases.

The hotel donates all suitable items that are not claimed within three months to Cancer Research UK charity shops.