YOU'RE never too old to find love, as George Bye, 77, and Ida Brown, 84, can testify.

The York couple were resigned to single lives after their partners died years ago, but when fate threw them together on a coach trip to Morecambe, Cupid's arrow struck right on target.

Tomorrow will see them tie the knot at Acomb Methodist Church.

George's wife, Elsie, died six years ago, and Ida's husband, Eddie, died 20 years before that, leaving the two convinced their love lives were over.

But after a shaky start, romance blossomed on the coach to Morecambe.

"She didn't want to sit next to me at first because she thought I looked grumpy, but it turned out the seat she booked was the one next to me, so she had to," said George, who used to work for Rowntree and Ben Johnson printers.

Soon the pair hit it off and spent the return journey holding hands and gazing into each other's eyes.

After a two-year courtship George popped the question.

He said: "I never dreamed I'd meet anybody else. It is definitely love, without a doubt."

Bubbly Ida, who comes from Baildon, near Bradford, was the private secretary to Winston Churchill's intelligence officer daughter, Mary, during the war.

She added: "George is a lovely man and I'm very lucky to have found him, but then he's lucky to have got me as well.

"I'm really looking forward to getting married. Just because I'm 84, it doesn't mean I'm past it."

The pair, who share the same birthday, will celebrate their union with friends and family at a reception at the Holgate Hill Hotel in York.