A BLUSHING bride was set to marry her toyboy sweetheart. There's nothing unusual in that, you might think. But she was 82 and he was 73!

The happy couple first met in March when groom moved to Brookside Home for the Elderly, Pearl Street, Blackburn, where she was already living. Romance blossomed in June during a holiday in Blackpool. And by the end of July, they were engaged.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.