A BLACKBURN couple who met in Mexico are so in love they plan to get married to each other for the fourth time.

John and Karina Cripps are featured in the final episode of ITV documentary, Are You Being Serviced?, due to be screened tonight at 7.30pm.

The docu-soap, which shows how Blackburn with Darwen Council delivers its services has already made Pete Trueman and Derek Wilkinson, who clear blocked drains across the borough, stars.

Tonight's episode shows the devoted couple marrying at Blackburn's Register Office in Jubilee Street.

The couple, who live in Heys Court, Blackburn, met while John, an engineer, was working at a factory in Mexico and have vowed to marry four times because civil law allows couples to wed as many times as they wish.

After a whirlwind romance they decided to wed in a South American registrar office. Back in Britain another wedding was held in a Sheffield church for family and friends, but John had already made his mind up to marry again.

The couple are showing tying the knot for the third time with council registrar Ray Enshaw conducting the service.

John, 36, said: "I was working in a carpet factory in Mexico commissioning a piece of machinery. Karina was a receptionist there. For the first week or so the owner of the carpet factory would take us out to lunch to the best restaurants in Mexico and fill us up with delicious food and a couple of beers and I would come back and feel that I couldn't do any more work.

"So, after a while I decided not to go out with him and instead go down to the local shop and get a bag of Doritos and a can of Coke and sit and talk to Karina, in sign language of course, because I couldn't speak Spanish and Karina couldn't speak English.

"And after five weeks of that I thought, 'I don't want to go home and leave her', and I suggested, 'Why don't I come back and marry you?'"

'There's a limit, John!'

JOHN Cripps revealed that when he approached a vicar about marrying a second time he was told "there is a limit!".

John said: "The vicar in Sheffield said to me, 'There's a limit, John, to how many times you can get married to the same woman and that limit is four'. That means we still have one to go. We will definitely get married one more time."

Karina, 22, admitted to finding life in Blackburn hard at first.

She said: "It was very difficult to live over here especially because I have a close family. Most of my family live in the same town in Mexico and we see each other almost every day. Being away has been very hard. When I came here I couldn't speak English, didn't have friends and couldn't go out.

"After four years I'm getting used to it. I have friends and my husband and it's great."

Registrar Ray Enshaw said: "The third ceremony went extremely well. It always helps when you have a nice couple like John and Karina.

"Obviously they are a very devoted couple, which came right the way through every word the spoke, which is very, very nice and quite heart warming really in this day and age."

They now plan to return to Mexico for a fourth wedding in a catholic church.