You can say it with flowers - but now it seems that you can even say it with potatoes.

A "-peel-ing" - June and Joe Corroll admire the heart-shaped potato. Picture: TERRY WEEDEN 40903-3

June Corroll, of Kings Parade, Holland-on-Sea, was amazed when she went to peel some potatoes for dinner and found a perfect heart-shaped spud in the bag.

Mrs Corroll, who is a retired nurse, said: "I went to cut it, but I didn't have the heart to."

"I looked at it and thought I would cut it in half and then I thought it's Valentine's Day.

"I showed it to my husband and he thought it was great," she added.

Mrs Corroll, 60, and her husband, Joe, 63, who used to assist in a hospital operating theatre, met at school.

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Published Monday, February 14, 2005

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