Revealed: your search for life partner ends within 50 miles!

In fact 38 per cent of the 2,000 adults polled fell for someone in the same town while around one in five found their true love in the same village. And it seems we are a nation of romantics with more than half of adults believing that finding true love is down to fate

The study also found of those polled 16 per cent said that distance was an issue when they first met their life-long partner, but they knew after three and a half months that they were the 'one' so persevered with the travelling.