Great Yarmouth has always been the perfect place to find sun, sand and theme park fun; but love?

A report in the Mirror last week suggests that some revellers at the East Anglian resort are likely to find romance amongst the thrills and spills of the seaside. The feature focusses on ten couples that met at the famous fairground and asks them what they think is behind Yarmouth's magnetic appeal.

One of the couples featured in the article are Trevor and Jenny Cooper, who met over a rollercoaster cash office.

Jenny was just 18 at the time and was working in the kiosk when she met Trevor. She describes their first meeting in the Mirror: "He had these gorgeous big blue eyes and he seemed like a funny, jokey guy." Married the following year, the Coopers were cheered on by their fellow beach workers.

It's not just the rollercoasters that get the staff feeling amorous, bungee ride operator Rob Murphy met his fiancé Sarah Thurston when she worked at the mini golf kiosk.

The couple have been together for seven years now with Robert proposing to Sarah in 2004. A genuine case of love at first sight, Sarah confessed to the Mirror that she used to "get butterflies" every time he came over to speak to her.

It's not just a spring for young love either, spare a thought for Eddie Hall and Carol Brown, who first met in the amusement arcade seven years ago. Security guard Eddie, 60, met Carol, 50, when she worked in the cash office. Eddie said: "I'm shy when it comes to romance but here you can get to know people gradually because you spend so much time together."

John Duffell, one half of another of Yarmouth's couples, has a different idea as to why the resort has had such an effect on the people that work there. He says: "There's a lot of romance here because the staff understand the pressure everyone's under".

John, who met his wife Debbie at the Pleasure Beach Cafe 25 years ago, remembers back to the first time their eyes locked. "I don't know what it was," he recalls, "but she had that special something". Debbie and John have been married since 1984.