STEPPING out after 50 years of marriage is like dancing on air for Arthur and Margaret Harrison.

The couple, from Orford, first met on a dance floor above the Warrington skyline at a dance on the top of former Co-operative building, which is now TJ Hughes.

Although Arthur, now aged 71, was a reluctant dancer.

Margaret, aged 69, said: "He was very shy, I had to drag him up on the floor.

"We got together and he then went in to the Army. But he couldn't stay away."

Arthur served two years in the Army and was based in Durham, but he would make the trip back to Warrington at the weekend to see Margaret.

They finally married on March 30 in 1957 at St Paul's Church on Bewsey Road and this weekend will be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary.

The couple have been inseparable since marrying and they even worked together at Walker's Brewery, Arthur as a drayman and Margaret as a bottler.

Margaret added: "We've always done everything together; we've never had separate lives. We have just had a good, happy life."

The couple will be celebrating their anniversary with a small get together with their family including sons Phillip, aged 48, and David, aged 47, and their grandchildren.