Lost loves reunite after 50 years apart

Tina Yuen (left) and Raymond Chung (right) meeting Preston mayor Yakub Patel

A couple who lost touch more than 50 years ago have rekindled their romance.

Tina Yeun tracked down Raymond Chung on social media last year and flew from her home in Germany to the UK to see him.

And now the pair plan to marry and settle in Preston, where Raymond ran two restaurants before he retired.

Ms Yeun said she had "never given up hope of finding him again" since they lost touch after working together in a Netherlands restaurant in 1973.

'First love'

They were both working in Ms Yeun's father’s restaurant in the Netherlands when they fell in love, but lost touch when Mr Chung moved to another part of the country.

Ms Yuen moved to work in Germany, where she married and had children.

Mr Chung moved to England, married and raised a family of his own, before running two restaurants of his own in Preston and becoming chairman of the Preston and District Chinese Community Association.

But both Mr Chung and Ms Yeun's marriages ended in divorce.

When she tracked him down on social media, they arranged to reunite.

"He was my first love - we parted in 1973 and much has happened since then, but his eyes still look at me in just the same way as they did when I was 17 years old," Ms Yuen said.

Mr Chung said: "It was wonderful to see Tina again, she is just as beautiful as I remember her."

The Mayor of Preston, Yakub Patel, recently invited the couple to the Mayor's Parlour for tea and said he was "delighted to hear of their new-found happiness".

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