Alan and Judith Kilshaw, the couple at the centre of the internet twins adoption saga earlier this year, have said they are determined to adopt again.

The couple who paid a US internet baby broker more than £8,000 for American-born twin girls, told the BBC that the damaging publicity they encountered had not put them off their dream of adopting a baby daughter.

The couple were interviewed by John Humphrys for Radio 4's On the Ropes programme yesterday.

Solicitor Alan Kilshaw, 46, from Buckley, north Wales, said: "In a way this has made me even more determined to do it a second time."

His wife Judith, 47, who has two grown-up daughters from a previous relationship, said she still saw the twins Belinda and Kimberley as her 'adopted' daughters.

"The heart says I have but the law says I haven't," she said.

Mr Kilshaw said his desire for a daughter stemmed from the fact that he was an only child who always wanted a sister of a similar age.

He said he thought "it would be nice" for their young sons Rupert and James to grow up with a sister.

The couple said there were now plans for a book about their experiences. Mrs Kilshaw said: "We are meeting someone tomorrow. The reason for this is not to make money. It's to put the record straight. The press have virtually destroyed me and my family."

She said she wanted revenge on those who had ruined her life. "Now it's pay back time. Now I will get my own back on each and every one of them. I'm sorry but they are going to have to pay for what they have done to my family," she said.

The couple said they originally decided to go public over the adoption because the American couple which were claiming that they had adopted the twins first, Richard and Vickie Allen, had gone to CBS television in the US with their side of the story.

They said they wanted to pre-empt any bad publicity in this country but admitted that choosing The Sun to break the story had been a big mistake.

After the story broke, the Press relentlessly portrayed the couple as unfit to bring up children and their case was widely attributed for influencing a decision by the Government to bring forward new adoption legislation.

The case resulted in their adopted twins being taken into care and returned to their place of birth in the USA where their fate remains undecided.

The couple are reported to have been left penniless by their experience.