They say that lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice, but for one Keighley couple a mysterious virus certainly did.

Harry and Florence Greenwood appeared in the KN in March when they celebrated their golden wedding. The couple marked their 50 years of marriage by spending a week at the Grand Hotel in Scarborough for a second honeymoon.

However they weren't expecting an uninvited guest during their stay when the hotel was hit by a mystery bug.

Harry explained: "We arrived on the Monday and stayed until the following Friday. They started going down during the week but the hotel didn't tell us that some had had it the previous week.

"At the end of the holiday we came home and my wife rang the hotel and they gave us a free holiday as compensation."

The pair took the Grand up on their offer. However the ill-fated couple stayed for just two nights before the bug struck again.

The final straw came on the Wednesday morning at breakfast when Harry and Flo saw paramedics wheeling an old lady out to an ambulance.

He added: "They were dropping like flies. All the talk in the lounge was of people who had fallen ill.

"As we sat there after breakfast you would overhear people talking. People were saying my friend and his wife are in bed with the bug.

"There was a group of people from a bowls team and they were meeting in the room discussing what to do because half of the team was down with it."

It was then that the couple decided it was time to leave.

Harry added: "We just said come on we'll go and get packed up. We handed the key in to reception and told the girl that we just didn't want to risk it."

Luckily Harry and Flo left just in the nick of time. The bug, which was later confirmed as gastroenteritis, affected 150 guests and 30 staff at the hotel. Shortly after they left, the building was closed for steam cleaning.

Despite their misfortune the couple remain undeterred. They still have the remainder of their free holiday to claim and are determined to return to the hotel.

Harry said: "It hasn't put us off, we will definitely go back again. We have been going there for 25 years."