You only get 10 years for murder

[Gob]

A couple who met as teenagers 10 years before the start of World War Two have celebrated 80 years of marriage.



Maurice and Helen Kaye, from Bournemouth, met in 1929 when they were 17 and 16 respectively.

They courted for four years because Mrs Kaye's mother wanted her older sister to be married first.

The couple, who are now 102 and 101, said the secret to a happy marriage was being tolerant of each other and being willing to "forgive and forget".

The pair, one of Britain's longest-married couples, plan to celebrate their oak wedding anniversary with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

A snapshot of 1929

The Wall Street Crash ushers in a worldwide Great Depression
The first Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, recognising the best films of 1927 and 1928
Ernest Hemingway's World War One classic, A Farewell to Arms, is published
Al Capone's men kill seven members of a rival gang in the St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago

Mrs Kaye was 16 and working in her mother's shop in Walworth, south London, when she met Mr Kaye, whose father wanted to sell goods to the store.

Mr Kaye ended up staying in the shop for three hours, prompting his future mother-in-law to ask "who's going to throw him out, you or me?".

[MajGenl.Meade]

Remember the old joke

If you'd done it when you first thought of it, you'd have been out on probation fifty years ago