A MARTON woman is trying to unite a couple with their wedding video - five years after the ceremony took place!

Julie Howarth's camera broke after she recorded the wedding with the tape still in it and she never managed to get a copy to the couple.

Julie, of Quernmore Avenue, recorded the wedding at Blackpool's register office before following the bride and groom to Stanley Park on her bicycle, where she recorded more footage of the couple.

But Julie dropped the camera on her way home and was never able to transfer the recordings on to video -- until now that is.

She has finally had the camera repaired and has asked The Citizen to try to find the couple so they can have a record of their big day.

But Julie did not know the bride and groom personally -- she made the recording for a friend.

All she knows is the bride, who had short blonde hair and was wearing a full, white off-the-shoulder dress, was called Brenda Trotter (pictured) and the groom, who was wearing a charcoal-coloured suit, was called Clifford Cross. Said Julie, who recorded the wedding for a friend she worked with in the Hounds Hill centre: "It's such a shame not to find the couple because it is a lovely recording and nobody else had a video camera on the day so this is the only copy there is. At the time I didn't get it fixed because it was going to cost me more than £100. I'd only recorded the wedding as a favour and I have tried to trace the friend I worked with, but she no longer lives on Dune Avenue so I don't know how I can trace the couple.

"It must have been over five years ago because I passed my driving test five years ago and, at the time of the wedding, I was using my push bike and I remember following the lovely old wedding car up to the park," she said.

If you know Clifford and Brenda Cross, nee Trotter, contact Julie on (01253) 768835.