A Hoyland Common business couple are planning a blissful retirement in France - and one of them has now penned a book about the search for their dream home.

Steven and Susan King, both 62, own Herbal Floral and Victorian Delights gift shop and tea room on Hoyland Road.

The couple have now found their dream home in France - an ancient water mill 'ruin' in Cayriech in the mid Pyrenees - and are busy rebuilding it.

Steven has written a book, 'Captain's French Adventures', about finding the property, buying it and renovating it.