Love will be in the air second time around for a couple who are set to tie the knot on Valentine's Day.

Allan Beckie and Sylvia Jones, who first married on February 14 at Keighley Parish Church, will exchange their vows again on the romantic day 31 years later.

The sweethearts wed in 1970 after meeting in Dyers night club but their relationship lasted only five years before they went their separate ways.

Both Allan, of Evergreen Walk, Crossflatts, and Sylvia remarried and saw little of each other, only keeping up-to-date through their daughter Julie.

Sylvia, 52, moved from her home in Keighley to Morecambe and it was there a chance meeting took place when her sister invited them both to a 30th anniversary party.

"It was nice to see her because I hadn't seen her for such a long while. I suppose it was love at first sight again. We got talking and it just went from there," said 54-year-old Allan.

Love blossomed as he commuted from his Crossflatts home more and more often and he popped the question to his bride-to-be last year.

Sylvia said: " I got butterflies in my stomach again. We have both changed. He said we haven't, but his hair is white now. I still fancied him, though, and it is better than it was first time around."

Allan added: "I think we were a bit too young the first time. But now we have lots of shared interests."

The couple will marry on Wednesday at Lancaster Register Office and hope to have bridesmaids from the first wedding - Pauline Harrison, of Haworth, and Jane Squires, of Keighley - present for the second match.

Allan's friends from the Ryshworth Club in Crossflatts will also be travelling to Lancashire for the ceremony and a party afterwards at the Regency Leisure Park

But according to Sylvia, there is also a practical side to this romantic tale.

"The first time round was a special day and Allan said we would have to marry on the same day because we couldn't have two wedding anniversaries!"