Technology has changed dramatically over the past few years, and one of the most exciting developments is the use of artificial intelligence to improve old photographs and video recordings.

Do you still have a collection of VHS tapes gathering dust in a cupboard?

You may no longer own a working video recorder, but those tapes could contain some of your family's most precious memories.

Somewhere in your home, there may be a box of old photographs, a collection of slides or a stack of video recordings that haven't been looked at for years.

Perhaps they're tucked away in the loft, stored in a cupboard or sitting in an album that only comes out on special occasions.

Mold on your tapes can act like glue. What happens is the tape when it plays snaps at the point of the mold. In this instance this tape broke a total of eight times and had to be sliced back. Then hand spooled as this video shows.

Your DVD won't play? Your computer can't read it? Don't give up on those precious memories just yet.

Old DVDs can become difficult to read through scratches, deterioration, recording errors or damaged file information.

At Forest of Dean Scanning Services, we offer specialist digital recovery techniques that may retrieve video recordings from DVDs that ordinary players and computers can no longer recognise.