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Dave (The Doive) Burton and Nik Goldsworthy have officially announced their intention to marry by getting engaged.

Dave, who travelled down to Devon early this morning, proposed to Nicola as a surprise on her way to work. Nik, 23, was happy to accept his offer of marriage and immediately said Yes.

The couple, who have been together since October 2009 have not yet decided upon the dates of the wedding. More details to follow in the near future.

Dave, The Doive, Burton is officially no longer single. He and Nikki have been going out for just over two weeks now.

Doive initially met Nikki whilst on a free trial of a Christian online dating site at the end of August. Following a few days contact on the online service they exchanged MSN messenger email addresses and have been in daily contact ever since.

Just over 3 weeks ago they met up in her home town of Tiverton in Devon, where they really hit it off. Since that day, Doive has travelled to Devon three times for ever increasing lengths of time.

Nicola is a trained nursery nurse, but due to the sale of the nursery building, is currently between jobs, working as a Nanny before school for a local family each morning. She is 23 and loves horror movies!

Dan Burton, father of one, announced last week that he has passed the last of his professional exams.

Since graduating university in the early part of the 21st century he has held a couple of jobs working in the accounts department whilst having to study hard in his spare time. The news will no doubt come as a relief to his wife, Sue Burton, who recently gave birth to their daughter, Carys.

So Dan is now fully qualified as an accountant, something which he has been working towards for a long long time. Congratulations to Mr Burton!

In related news, Kay Burton has also passed her latest accounting exams. Congratulations also to her.

As time continues to relentlessly move on, Doive Net News has struggled to keep up, but here's just some of the highlights of the last 6 or so months.

Carys is born!
Baby Carys Joyce became the youngest member of the Burton family on Sunday April 5th 2009 weighing an impressive 9 pounds something! New parents, Dan and Sue were ecstatic but exhausted when the South Wales Echo ran a piece about them in May/June.

Cus Cus is poisoned
In sad news though, the new arrival was followed by an unexpected departure in their Cat, Cus Cus who was still very young and under unusual circumstances. It is likely to be one of the great mysteries of our time but the new parents suspect that their beloved Cat may have been poisoned, since a lot of the neighbourhood moggies disappeared at around the same time.

A new housemate for Dave and Mark
Following the early departure of Steve Scott from the Big Bother house in Radyr at the start of 2009, the search for a new housemate had been a slow and disheartening one.

However, the new housemate (aka Becca Bodsworth) moved into the house this last weekend and is currently sorting through a hundred million boxes trying to make sense of her new room. As a fellow 24 fan, pancake cooker, cleaning enthusiast and spicy food conausseur she will make a valuable asset to house life.

Nerys and the new man
Nerys Hurley has bagged herself a new bloke and although most of us are still to meet him, she seems uber happy, so we're also happy.

Rhiain gets engaged
Whitchurch High School survivor, Rhiain Bevan, has announced her engagement to some bloke in England. More details to follow, including details of the full background check we've ordered on him. (Kidding, Congratulations Rhi!)

Emma goes back to Nursery
Emma Burton, formerly known as Baby Burt, has started work at the nursery at the David Lloyd Centre in Cardiff. This is her first job since finishing Sixth Form in Whitchurch High School. It is a challenging job, as she admits, but its definitely right for her.

Bliss on Corrination Street
David of Bliss was happy to announce that his job as the Google car guy has led him to Corrination Street. That's right, he took the Google Car there to scan it ready for the controversial street view mapping service! He is also hoping to be the one who maps the Top Gear test track.

Business is Booming
Doive is happy to announce that Business is really good despite the apparent Recession that the World is suffering. It could be a result of the market looking for cheaper alternatives, or it could be the result of 4 years of friendly service and referrals, but Dave has other ideas:

"I couldn't have done this by myself, in many ways I've made all the wrong moves from a business point of view. But the best move I made was taking the risk to start with", said Mr Burton when asked, "I honestly believe it was what God wanted me to do, though only he knows why!"

Deb due soon
Adam and Deb are expecting their first child sometime soon. The Doctors Webb are still living and working in Leicester, though the pregnancy hasn't exactly slowed them down judging by the photos on Facebook of them at Glastonbury festival!

More soon...

David Bliss, up and coming DJ superstar and Google street mapper, has made a certain Burton lady very happy today as they wed in Bethel Baptist Church in Whitchurch, Cardiff.

It was a very fancy affair as all the guests arrived in Tuxedos and ballgowns in the now quite modern church building. As the guests took their seats and each in turn asked the Groom whether he was nervous, he started to wonder whether he should be.

Aided by his faithful ushers, including the Rt Hon Mark Strange and Best man, Daniel Burton they waited patiently for the bride to arrive (while a pregnant Sue darted around lighting candles and turning on fairy lights.

As Rebecca Burton made her final entrance, the room got to its feet and watched as a true princess walked down the aisle. The absolutely massive white fairytale dress was bigger than any of the guests had imagined and it made the Burton bride a beautiful one.

The service, led by the hysterically funny Simeon Baker was a lively one, with some traditional hymns accompanied by much more modern band. With Mark and Ruth providing a duet while the register was signed the wedding went off with just one hitch - and that was supposed to happen.

The wedding service was held quite late in the day, so it was already getting dark when the newlyweds left the church. Guests hurried onto the coach that had been provided to ferry them to the city centre - a provision made in the light of the South Africa vs Wales rugby match that was being held there that same day.

The reception and party was held at the Park Plaza hotel and was certainly a Bliss choice. A very modern hotel with toilets that automatically flush and over-eager taps that fire water out like geisers.

The black and white theme was a novel choice for a wedding, but one that ultimately made sense. The banquet consisted of Salmon, Lamb and profiteroles. Profiteroles that had been arranged into a giant profiterole wedding cake and had to be cut using a sword.

The speeches were effective, heart warming and most of all, funny and not in too crude a way either. All this was followed by DJ Bliss' automated discotheque - all cued up in advance of the party by the groom himself.

As the night drew to a close, it was clear that both bride and groom had had a great day and even more crucially, that they couldn't wait to spend their lives together.

Dan and Sue Burton are happy to announce that their first child is now well on the way. For the couple who have been married for several years and who moved to Whitchurch so that they could be near the right school, this was no real surprise.

The child, which is due on Dave (The Doive)'s birthday next year is healthy and growing at a good pace. More information to follow in the coming months

Mother of five, Kay Burton has succeeded in besting all her children by attaining a first class BA degree in Accounting at South Wales' University of Glamorgan.

Mrs. Burton, who used to work as a Chemistry teacher at Cardiff High School, decided to take her career in a new direction just 3 years ago after she started doing the accounts for Radyr Baptist Church in her spare time.

Not only did she get a first class honours degree but she was also surprised to find out that she had won an award in Auditing! Kay, who was convinced that she would be resitting at least one paper in the summer, was ecstatic to find out her results earlier this week.

Ceri Sian Burton, the artistic Burton, has been given her final mark for her degree.

She has been at South Wales' UWIC university for the last 4 years. Initially doing a foundation year in Art and then going on to study Fine Art. This last week she has been displaying her work, along with her course mates at the Howard Gardens Campus.

Doive was lucky enough to get a private tour of the exhibition by the artist herself on Wednesday evening. It was obvious even then that the work was well received with one visitor saying how clever her work was.

Her latest work has been based around the reflections in spherical objects and mirrors, producing pieces that bridge the gap between observationary and abstract art.

With the exhibit drawing to a close today, Ceri was proud to announce that she has been awarded a 2:1 in her degree. So what is next for this Cardiff-bred artist?

She is currently looking for a job for the summer, but is considering arranging a private exhibition and even doing Murals. What ever she decides to do in the future, one thing is for sure - she won't be short of paintings!

One of Doive's former CU mates starts his first UK tour this week with a dramatic adaptation of one of CS Lewis' classic novels.

Dai Woolridge and his fiance, Cath, make up the Going Public Theatre Company and are starting their 9 date tour later this week. The stage show, creatively entitled "The Tiger, The Snitch and the Chest of Drawers" is playing in the Gate, Cardiff on May 16th.

Sarah of Mallett, has moved up to the Radyr area of Cardiff from her closet in Cathays. Sarah, who moved into her previous home following the departure of Duncan to university and Doive to Dinas Powys, has landed on her feet - since she is now sharing a 3 storey town house in the new Sidings area of Radyr with two other women.

Sarah, delighted at finally having almost enough room to store her 3 million books and outfits in, moved to her new pad last week.

Dan, Burtwok, Burton has been offered a new job at Company's house. Although the new job has a lower salary than his current one, it does offer other benefits...

Since the new job is working for the government, he now gets flexi-time, more holidays including extra bank holidays and, crucially, promotion benefits.

Dan, who has loyally worked at Dacey's in Canton since graduating from Cardiff University, was head of accounts - but feels that the time has finally come to move on.

We are happy to report that Tassja and Jay have welcomed their first child, Nathan, into the world.

Tassja, who it could be said, had an uncomfortable pregnancy - having spent half of it on crutches due to her hips continually falling from their sockets - gave birth to her first son about 2 weeks ago now.

Doive Net News would like to congratulate the new parents and welcome the new Wiseman into the world.

Chris Burton, younger brother of eccentric businessman David "The Doive" Burton, and his long-term girlfriend Jenni Lewis have purchased their first home.

The house, which is in the relatively new Pontprennau area of Cardiff, is a 3 storey, 2 bed town house. With a relatively modern design which sees the ground-floor taken up mainly by the garage, the house has a good sized garden and large living spaces.

While Jenni was clearly excited about the house, it was difficult to tell whether Chris was more happy with his new house or his new monster of a TV.

"He wasn't allowed a new TV until I had a new house", explained Jenni on their first night in the property as she watched an excited Christopher unpacking his TV and setting up the surround sound in an otherwise empty room.

The couple are currently waiting for their new furniture to arrive which includes their new bed and sofa.

Liz Mallett, otherwise known as 'the Nice Mallett', was involved in a car crash in the last few weeks which resulted in the writing off of her car.

Miss Mallett (25) and her son Curtis (7) were hit by another driver whilst travelling to her home in the Newport Road area of Cardiff. Though neither was seriously hurt, Liz has since been off work suffering from back problems as a result of the crash.

The car, which will soon be on display at the local dump, was damaged beyond repair.

Did you notice? The site was down for 2 days due to a security breach at Fasthosts, the company that host us. A few months ago they had a breach but just a few days ago they started noticing that some sites were being hacked into. So as a precaution they changed all the passwords - including the one for our database and the one for uploading files.

So, thats why the site has had the lovely message "unable to select database for the last few days".

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