NORTH-East Olympian Alyson Dixon has found her phone containing all her memories from the Rio Games after an online appeal.

Dixon, from Sunderland, took part in the marathon in Brazil.

She lost the phone in the city on Tuesday.

She tweeted today: "Lost my phone (Samsung S6), containing my @Rio2016_en photos, in or around @saucy_Burger on Tues evening. Would be grateful for its return."

She later added: "If anyone has found my phone but worried about repercussions, I promise there will be none. #findalysphone

"You can even keep the phone, just put the photos on a memory card and return that. I NEED those photos returned".

Around 1pm, she reported that the phone had been returned.

"Thank you for all the retweets, extremely happy to say my phone has been found. Now off to back up all my photos!!" she wrote.