IN the lead up to Valentine's Day, an online dating site has revealed Bridgwater is among the towns with highest rates of infidelity in the UK. 

The town ranked 64th out of over 300 towns in the 2023 list compiled by Illicit Encounters, an online dating site for married people.

The 'infidelity index' is based on data on cheating Brits, and calculated using statistics from various websites, surveys of behaviour in different areas, and recent research on demographics.

According to the data, 3.38% of people in Bridgwater cheated on their significant other in 2023.

Frome had the highest infidelity list of any UK town, with a whopping 7.32% of the population reportedly having an affair last year, with a total of 1309 recorded by the site in the area.

Frome was followed by Weybridge (Surrey) in second place, which had an infidelity rate of 5.95% over the course of the year.

Other Somerset towns in the list included Taunton, which ranked 56th in the list with a rate of 3.52%, and Yeovil in 193rd with a rate of 2.09%.