The series finale saw the wedding of popular midwife Chummy - played by Miranda Hart - and policeman PC Noakes.

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He moved back to the company's base in London and held a series of finance jobs, wedding his knowledge of petroleum engineering to the discipline of return on investment.

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Cranes were a popular motif in Japan, particularly for weddings witness the lavish wedding kimono made in 1942, a year that had begun with a series of Japanese military successes.

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But the two television series that really secured Portmeirion's place in the popular British imagination were 1960s sci-fi drama The Prisoner (with the village making an eerily jovial setting for the Kafkaesque story), and the more recent Cold Feet, the romantic comedy series whose final episode in 2003 turned Portmeirion into a popular wedding venue overnight.

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