GOLDEN couple Ron and Joan Yates enjoyed a meal with family and friends to celebrate half a century of married bliss.
The pair who tied the knot back on May 24, 1947, at Preston's St Matthews Church on New Hall Lane, partied the night away 50 years later at the Gibbon Bridge Farm Hotel at Chipping.
The couple, who live on Longridge Road, have two grown-up sons Keith and Neil and a daughter Susan.
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