There buried between advertisements for home extensions and the weekly rainfall report lay a proposal from one romantic to another.

It read "I love you Ann, will you marry me?"

Strangely enough it was not the first proposal in print from Jeff Boswell to Ann Marsden following a bit of a bungle on April Fool's Day.

"I put a public notice in before which asked her to marry me but I didn't realise it would be printed on April Fool's Day," he said.

"She was excited but didn't quite believe it so I had to come back again and make amends."

All ended well however, with Ms Marsden accepting the proposal.

"We've both been married before but through circumstances Ann had never been proposed to," Mr Boswell said. "So I wanted to make it special."

The couple are wasting no time in tying the knot with nuptials planned for July with a honeymoon to follow in Thailand.