A HEMYOCK husband and wife will next week celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary.
Sam and Ruby Mather will reach the milestone on Sunday, and are celebrating with a party in the village hall on Sunday.
Sam is originally from Kearsley, Lancashire and moved to Hemyock in 1945. He was in the army building bridges and was shot during the war, spending some time in a hospital in Belgium.
He also worked as a milk lorry driver, and for ReliOn before his retirement.
Mary Scribbins, the couple's daughter, said: "Their latter years have been spent watching grandchildren and great grandchildren grow up and now enjoy visits from their great great grandchildren.
"In the evenings they like no more than a good whist drive to meet old friends and then drive back to Hemyock.
"As Sam would say, it is the best place in the world.
"What more could a man want: lovely wife, lovely family, lovely friends and Charlie their beloved parrot."
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