
The Isle of Man will score another civil partnership first today - when the first opposite-sex UK couple enter into theirs on the Island.
Claire Beale and Martin Loat from London have travelled to the Island, currently the only place in the British Isles where heterosexual couples can have a civil partnership.
Although the UK introduced civil partnerships in 2004, they are currently only for same-sex couples there.
The Island made civil partnerships generally available this summer.