We do like a good love story here at the Burton Mail and Norma and Dennis Carter are no exception to the rule.

The couple is celebrating 60 years of wedding bliss and when we when to see them they let us pour over their wedding album marvelling at their black and white photos showing a beaming couple about to start a long life together.

It is always an amazing trip down memory lane for these couples who tell us how different life was compared to the present day.

Many of the couples were forced to spend long periods apart due to National Service, while a proposal was very rarely a down-on-one-knee event, and more a simple "Shall we get married?"

Even so, the women jumped at the chance, reporting the romantic side of their partners, which is still evident to this day.

These couples can teach us all something about working hard at relationships and sticking together through thick and thin. After all, they are the experts.