A WOMAN from York faces a race against time to make her holiday flight - she has lost her passport only days before setting off.

Katrina Ellis, of Fulford, has made an urgent appeal for help so she can get on her plane to Croatia.

Katrina is due to catch the train to Manchester Airport at 3am on Sunday with her flight scheduled for 6.40am.

She has offered a reward to anyone who finds her passport.

Katrina said: "I was going to use it as ID to pick a parcel up from the Leeman Road parcel office, and must have dropped it between my home and the office.

"I feel such an idiot, I can't really believe it has happened."

The passport was lost between 4.30pm and 5pm yesterday. Anyone who can help should ring 07919 096243.

Updated: 10:57 Friday, April 02, 2004