Dundee named top Scottish city with 'unhappiest couples'

Valentine's Day is usually the time of the year that most couples across the country celebrate their love, but a new study has suggested this might not be the case for one Scottish city.

Dundee has been named second in a list of the UK's top cities that are home to the 'unhappiest couples'.

According to research by Angelic Diamonds - specialists in diamond jewellery - the City of Discovery is the only Scottish city to make the UK top 10.

Researchers analysed monthly Google searches for queries related to a break-up intention, for example 'how to break up with someone' in order to put the study together.

So which UK cities are home to the 'unhappiest couples'?

Note: Search data was calculated as per 100,000 people to control for cities with bigger populations.

According to the data, Chichester had the highest break-up searches with an average of 93 every month per 100,000 people and a population of 32,261.

Dundee, the only Scottish entry, was second with 92 monthly searches per 100,000 people and a population of 43,478.

Carlisle came third with 39 monthly break up searches per 100,000 people and a population of 74,451.

Bath and Lincoln were joint fourth for the most monthly break up searches, having 36 per 100,000 and a population of 107,161.

Cambridge was the fifth city for break up searches, having 33 each month per 100,000 people with a population of 149,530.

Rank	City	Total break up searches per 100,000 per month
1	Chichester	93
2	Dundee	92
3	Carlisle	39
4	Bath	36
5	Lincoln	36
6	Cambridge	33
7	Exeter	31
8	Oxford	31
9	Chester	26
10	Chelmsford	25

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