A WEYMOUTH man and his New Zealand fiance are getting married after meeting at Heathrow airport - 25 years after the bride's parents met in almost exactly the same circumstances.

Ray King, 28, and Michaela Davey, 22, who live in Bedford Road, Weymouth, met for the first time after chatting for four months on an internet dating website.

Michaela, based 12,000 miles away in New Zealand, flew to England to meet Ray, a radio presenter who works in Warminster.

They are now engaged to be married in December, and expecting a baby boy.

Michaela's father, who is English, experienced almost the exactly the same events in 1978 - albeit with different technology.

He answered an advert for a travelling companion in a New Zealand newspaper.

It was from Michaela's mother-to-be, and they corresponded by letter for nearly a year.

They met for the first time at Heathrow in August 1979, and were married three months later.

Michaela told the Echo how she arrived in London feeling remarkably relaxed.

She said: "As soon as I met Ray I knew straight away he was the one. I felt so comfortable with him."

They had a couple of bottles of wine in a pub, and a week later were engaged to be married.

Her parents Michael and Shirley Davey, who live in Nelson, New Zealand, said they were a bit unsure about their daughter flying off to meet someone she'd met on the internet.

But Mr Davey, who was a pupil at Yeovil school in the mid-1950s, said: "At the same time it was very much the same thing we did after writing to each other in our pen letters."