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'No regrets from either of us!' Couple shares key to successful marriage following 70th anniversary

A couple who are celebrating their platinum anniversary have told the Express and Star their secret to everlasting love.

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Edna and Bill Salt, from Bentley, Walsall, are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary.

Edna and Bill Salt, 89 and 91, of Edinburgh Avenue, Walsall, have celebrated a whopping 70 years of marriage together in a poignant gathering attended by friends and families.

The loving couple first met by chance in 1951 when Bill spied Edna from across the street and sent his friend to ask if she would write to him while he was away in the army.

Two years later the couple were happily married on the 25th of July, 1953 the couple were happily married in St Laurence's Church, Darlaston.

Edna and Bill Salt, from Bentley, Walsall, pictured on their wedding day in 1953.