A STOURPORT couple whose eyes met across a dance floor more than 60 years ago are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary tomorrow.

Bonnie, 81, and Bill Brain, 85, of Oak Apple Close, met at the Queensbury Club, in Birmingham, in 1946 after Mr Brain had served in the Royal Navy.

Mrs Brain, who was a member of the Women's Land Army in the West Midlands, said: "There were dances every night at the Queensbury Club. One night Bill asked me for a dance and we started dancing together."

"At the time, he had just come out of the Navy and I had come out of the Land Army."

The couple, who moved to Stourport from Halesowen 18 years ago, tied the knot in Birmingham in 1948 and went on to have a son and three grand-children, who now live in South Africa.

Mrs Brain added: "I'm really looking forward to our anniversary celebrations.

"We're getting on in age but as long as we have got each other we don't mind.

"As a couple we are into dancing and bowling, we share everything.

"We're really grateful to have been married for 60 years and that we are both still alive. There are lots of people who are alone and don't have a partner.

"It's nice to have someone to have a natter to or to have an argument with," she said.

The keen bowlers, who are members of Stourport Bowling Club, will celebrate their landmark anniversary with family in South Africa.