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Parents across the North East might be fed up of hearing their youngsters belting out songs from the latest Disney classic Frozen - but for one Tyneside couple the film will always have a special place in their hearts.

Mark Deeks and Angela Lawery got engaged after lip-synching their way through a track from the film.

And they even managed to film their special moment to treasure forever.

Mark, 37, a musical director from Newcastle, said: “I have to take responsibility for it, Angela is a big music theatre fan and Frozen is one of her favourite films - she’s a big kid at heart.

“I wanted to incorporate some of this in proposing.”

The Camperdown couple have watched the Disney film together countless times, and love to sing along to the soundtrack.

They had a long-running joke that if Mark ever proposed they would make a film based on them lip-synching to one of the tracks, Love Is An Open Door. In the song, Prince Hans proposes to Princess Anna.

“For months if we went out in the car we would lip-synch to the song as a ‘joke’ but Angela didn’t realise it was really me rehearsing,” said Mark.

“When we’d get the end of the song where the prince proposes, I’d joke that I wouldn’t need to practice that part.

“Before we did it I hadn’t mentioned marriage for a while to try and throw her off the trail - to the point where a couple of days before, Angela had a go at me about it.”

On the big day, Mark asked his friend, photographer Serena Taylor, to meet the couple in Rising Sun Park, in Benton, as he and Angela went for a walk.

The “chance encounter” then saw Serena mention Frozen - which prompted Mark and Angela to show off their lip-synching skills while Serena snapped away.

As Mark got down on one knee to pop the question, Serena captured the moment on film.

Angela, a 26-year-old teacher at Langley First School, in Monkseaton, North Tyneside, was visibly stunned - but fortunately she said yes.

Now, the couple are planning their wedding, due to take place at Easter 2016. And even though they aren’t planning a Frozen theme, there might be the odd reference to the film.

Mark said: “I won’t be buying icicles or balloons.

“We’ve had a bit of stick but I’m sure one of the songs will work its way in.”

Angela added: “Mark doesn’t want it to be Frozen-themed but I’m sure there will be something.”

In the four weeks before Christmas, Frozen shifted more than 790,000 copies, and has sold more than 3.8m DVDs since its release.