Ash cloud ruins couple's wedding

The couple have unpacked their wedding outfits

A couple have been forced to abandon their dream wedding in Mexico after the ban on flights caused by a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland.

Zowie Ball and Ashley Morris, from Grimsby, had their flights cancelled on Thursday and now time has run out for them to make their big day.

Mr Morris told BBC News the couple were "absolutely devastated".

Humberside Airport flights are grounded until at least 1900 BST on Monday as the ash drifts across the UK.

Miss Ball told BBC News she had been crying since Thursday morning.

Beach wedding

She said: "There's a deadline for us to get to Mexico because we have to be in the country for so many days before we can actually get married, it's their law.

"We spoke to the tour operators [on Thursday night] and they said if they couldn't get us there [on Friday] then the wedding would be cancelled but we could still have our holiday."

Mr Morris said: "We were going to get married on the beach. It's a hotel we have been to before and it was going to be our dream wedding.

"We really would like to get out there as soon as possible, but the flights are still not operating out of the UK so if that's going to happen it needs to happen soon."

Mr Morris said family and friends in the UK and his best man, who lives in New Orleans, had booked to fly to Mexico for the wedding.

Oil rig support helicopters at Humberside were also grounded

He said: "[The best man] is only going for like three days to coincide with the wedding, which has now been cancelled, so he's just stuck with going to Cancun and us not being there."

The air traffic control body Nats imposed the restrictions on flights at noon on Thursday because of the danger the ash poses to aircraft engines

Helicopters which support North Sea oil and gas rigs from Humberside Airport and helicopters run by Yorkshire Air Ambulance are also grounded.

The airport has expressed its "sincere gratitude to passengers for their continuing patience and cooperation in these unprecedented circumstances".