AN Evening Times paperboy has been praised for his honesty after he found an expensive new mobile phone lying on a doorstep while doing his deliveries.

Bryan McLauchlin, 14, of Cambuslang, noticed the package outside a customer's house.

He knew the occupants were away on holiday for a week because he had been told before they left. So he put the package in a safe place until they returned home.

Michelle Esplin, who gets the Evening Times delivered every night, was so grateful for his actions she wrote to us to tell us about Bryan's honesty.

The youngster, a fourth year pupil at Trinity High in Rutherglen, said: "I go by their house every day and noticed there was a cardboard box with wrapping around it at their front door.

"I thought I would put it somewhere safe so I slipped it under their decking in the back garden, where no one could see it. They were away for a week and I told them as soon as they got back that it was there."

Bryan so impressed Evening Times bosses he was given £50 of Argos vouchers and made the paper's junior agent of the month.

He is delighted with his reward and is looking forward to spending his vouchers. He said: "It is brilliant to be given the vouchers. I didn't want the package to be stolen and was just trying to help my customers."

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