King cat: Sheikh with new owners Nicolla Birkby and Karl Place
A couple who planned their dream wedding on a paradise beach have CANCELLED their nuptials - after becoming besotted with a stray moggy .
Although the big day was all set to go ahead, Nicolla Birkby and her fiance Karl Place spent more than £2,000 adopting a cat with no home, and have pulled the plug on their planned union.
The cat lovers met and fell for the feline on a trip to Abu Dhabi in April and decided together to dip into their wedding fund to bring Sheikh, as they named him, back home to Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Nicolla Birkby and her fiance Karl Place adopted the miserable moggy when they saw him suffering on their holiday.