SHOCKED fruit-seller Yvonne Brogan hurried home to mend a leak - and emerged four hours later a blushing bride.

She was whisked down the aisle by her scheming husband-to-be Malcolm Couzins, who brought forward their big day by five months without telling her. But more than 100 others, including the vicar at Lower Darwen's St James Church and the couple's children, were in on the secret.

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