A BRAVE Chelmsford woman stuck to Leap Year tradition and proposed to her man on one of London’s most famous sights - and he said yes!

Jessica Lee got down on one knee and publicly popped the question to her boyfriend Christian Bailey on the famous London Piccadilly Lights yesterday, February 29.

Traditionally, only women can propose to their partners on the day that comes around just once every four years.

Jessica’s opportunity to propose came about through the annual Love Notes campaign run by the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) charity shops during National Heart Month, which is part of the BHF’s flagship Red for Heart fundraising campaign.

Property firm and BHF corporate partner Land Securities, which owns Piccadilly Lights, offered the famous sight to one lucky lady as the prize.

Jessica won the competition with her entry about Christian and how they met. After a chance encounter on a train from London back to Chelmsford, Jessica and Christian got talking and realised that although they had both grown up in Chelmsford, sharing lots of mutual friends and both attending Our Lady Immaculate Primary School, they had never actually met.

The couple went on to realise they were both born in St John’s Hospital in 1979 and travelled to many places at the same time, without crossing paths.

Jessica said: “Proposing to Christian publicly on the Piccadilly Lights was nerve wracking and exciting all at the same time.

“I’ve always known I wanted to marry Christian, especially with all the strange coincidences in our lives, it felt like it was meant to be.

“I entered this competition by posting a Love Note to him on the Chelmsford BHF Shop window and now I’m engaged to the love of my life.”