The news will be all around Craiglang by now if Isa has anything to do with it.

Three years after a first date at the Hydro to see Jack, Victor and the gang on stage in the Still Game Live show, Jamie McGuire took his girlfriend, Nicole Short, back to the venue to surprise her with a proposal.

While the Still Game cast performed to thousands, Jamie popped the question to Nicole in the centre of the empty, cavernous arena.

The 24-year-old electrician had just flown back from work in Afghanistan the day before and told Nicole they had won tickets for a backstage tour of the Glasgow venue.

At the end of the tour, the couple arrived in the main arena as ‘Yours’ by Ella Henderson started playing on the sound system and the wraparound screens all around the arena flashed up the message “Nicole, will you marry me?”

The stunned bride-to-be managed to say “yes” through her tears.

Nicole, 23, an urban planning student at Heriot-Watt University, was stunned by the proposal.

She said: “It was only when the song started playing that I thought something was happening and I started welling up. But I’m really happy.”

As the music played, Jamie got down on one knee and produced the ring to pop the question.”

She added: “He has done really well keeping it a secret.”

Jamie, from Uddingston, said: “I’ve been planning this for so long and today I was really stressed out.”

His stress disappeared when he received the answer he hoped for.

He added: “ It was definitely worth it.”

The couple popped champagne in the centre of the arena in front of a handful of Hydro staff.

A spokeswoman for the Hydro said it was the first proposal they had been asked to arrange in the venue.

She said: “Jamie got in touch to ask if it would possible to propose to Nicole because it was where they had their first date.

“It has taken quite a bit of planning, with him working in Afghanistan, to ensure it all went smoothly.”

The groom-to -be said he had earlier stuck with tradition and cleared the proposal with Nicole’s father before going ahead.

Jamie and Nicole said they would wait two years before the wedding as they are saving to buy a house and have not begun to think about a possible venue.

Perhaps Boaby the Barman could organise some pies for a reception in the Clansman.