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England: 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 600,000 items were left on the capital’s trains and buses last year as Transport for London received a record haul of missing goods. 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.