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Not elder law: British couple celebrates 81st wedding anniversary today

_45824091_milfords_pa226  Britain’s longest living married couple have celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary.  Frank and Anita Milford, who live together in a nursing home in Plymouth, Devon, exchanged vows on 26 May, 1928.  The Milfords were married in 1928 – the year penicillin was discovered   Frank is 101 and Anita will be 101 next month. In February they will break the record to become the longest married couple in Britain.
They say they still have little arguments, but will always have a kiss and cuddle before they go to bed.  The pair, who said there was no “magic secret” to a happy marriage, met at a YMCA dance in the St Budeaux area of Plymouth in 1926 and were married two years later at Torpoint register office.

Source/more:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8067752.stm