Cover image via bbc.comA man who was saving an outgoing voicemail of his late wife following her death in 2003, thought he lost the voicemail when technical work carried out by Virgin Media caused it to be deleted
The voicemail was recorded by Ruby, Stan Beaton's wife, to serve as the message people would hear when they called his phone
The 68-year-old [told](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-31015325) BBC Radio Leeds: "I've always resisted changing companies because whenever I mentioned that my wife's voice was our voicemail message and would it be retained and each company said no, so that's why I never changed.
"Sadly it disappeared. I was absolutely devastated by it, but also extremely angry.
"In the early days [I listened to it] quite often. Basically it came to the point when if I felt low then I would listen to it.
"In December I learned that it had disappeared. I just could not tell people how it affected me at that time. It really did devastate me."
Then, having heard his story, a team of 11 engineers decided to recover the deleted voicemail. And much to the 68-year-old's delight, they managed to restore it after spending 3 days on it.
Upon listening to his late wife's message after it was recovered, Beaton said: "It's just a wonderful, wonderful sound that I thought was lost forever. I'm staggered at the lengths they have gone to."
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