Those who skate together, stay together, say country's oldest ice skaters.

A couple has proved those who skate together stay together after becoming the UK's oldest figure skaters following nearly 30 years of marriage.

David and Pat Arnold first locked eyes over the ice back in 1984 and their love of skating has kept them together ever since.

Their passion for one another mean they're a success on and off the rink and have been crowned international adult elite champions for the past five years.

66-year old David and wife, Pat, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, have both skated since they were children, before becoming coaches and performing professionally.

They met when David joined Peterborough Ice Rink, and began getting lessons from Pat, who coached Christopher Dean in the early days of his career.

Despite their passion for the sport, the couple took a break from ice skating to buy and run their own newsagents business.

However it wasn't long before the ice came calling and they got their skates on to take the competing world by storm.

They're two of 59 British skaters represented by the National Ice Skating Association (NISA) in the only adult competition to be sanctioned directly by the International Skating Union.

David and Pat's coach Maria Therese Kreiselmeyer is based in Oberstdorf, Germany, and the couple visit her three to four times a year for three weeks of intensive training.

They then work to choreography by Phillipa Towler-Green whose mother was a four-time world champion.

David and Pat said that despite their age, they plan to keep skating for as long as they possibly can.