GOLDEN couple Graham and Doreen Browning celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the weekend at the Salisbury hotel they stayed in on their honeymoon.

Graham, 71, and Doreen, 70, of London Road, Amesbury, met at dancing classes in Walton-on-Thames in spring 1957 when they were aged 15 and 16.

They got married on September 24, 1960 at All Saints Church in Banstead, Surrey, before setting off on their honeymoon in Graham's father's car.

They spent their last night at the Red Lion Hotel in Salisbury - which is where they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Saturday.

The couple lived in Cheam after they got married, with Doreen working at the local newspaper and Graham working in London as a clerk for two insurance companies.

He later joined the Royal Corps of Signals, before transferring to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, where he remained until his retirement in 1992.

The couple, who have two daughters and two grandsons, moved to Amesbury 22 years ago, and ran the Inwood House Residential Retirement Home in Salisbury for ten and a half years before they retired.

They are members of the Rotary Club and Inner Wheel Club in Amesbury, and keep busy seeing their family, gardening, dog walking and doing charity and voluntary work.

"We enjoy travelling at home and abroad and believe that a full and active life, fellowship and friendship and give and take are the recipe for a long and happy marriage," they said.