A couple from Dunnington are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary today.

Tom Sellers, 90, and his wife, Nancy, 89, met at a village dance in the early years of the Second World War, just before Tom was called up for the RAF.

At the time Tom was living in Stockton-on-the-Forest and Nancy in Dunnington.

Tom said: “There were various village dances and we met at one of those.

“I did four-and-a-half years in the RAF, three of them in India, and was demobbed in 1946.”

Meanwhile, Nancy worked at Terry’s in York before moving on to ammunition production at what is now the Nestlé site.

After the war, Tom worked for seven years as a mechanic at Broadlands, a coach hire company in Boroughbridge.

He said: “Then I started up on my own private hire company based in Dunnington, until we both retired in 1986.”

The couple have two children, son Brian and daughter Aileen, and four grandchildren, who will be joining them for a family celebration this evening.

On the secret to such a long marriage, Tom said: “You have got to remember the reasons you decided to get married.”