FLOWERS and frocks have had to take a back-seat for a Bishop Auckland bride-to-be, as she serves on a peace-keeping mission in Bosnia.
Corporal Jamie Parkin is due to get married in just over a month, but the run up to her marriage is being spent in Eastern Europe, where she is serving with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Luckily Jamie is serving alongside her fianc Andy Wightman and they will both be returning home for the big day on May 11.
Jamie, 23, said: "I was originally supposed to be going to Kosovo and Andy was coming to Bosnia. But I asked my boss if I could come out here as well and he fixed it for us."
Jamie, a former Wolsingham Comprehensive School pupil, is a qualified telecommunications technician and is serving as part of a multinational peacekeeping force that is helping the country to get back on its feet.
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