A WARRINGTON couple who celebrate their Golden Wedding today believe there's no secret to their successful marriage, they've just been lucky.

Former newsagents Ken and Joan Rogers, of Hollybank, Moore, first met whilst they were both working at the Alliance Box Company, on Orford Lane, in the 1940s.

But Ken was drafted into the RAF and it was only when he was demobbed at the end of the war that they met again.

Ken recalled: "I was cycling up Bridge Street and saw her walking along the road so I stopped. We talked for a while and I asked her out. We've never looked back since."

Ken and Joan were married at Christ Church, in Padgate, and opened a newsagents shop on Park Road, in Great Sankey, in 1954.

They later moved away from the town to run other shops in the Peak district and Altrincham before returning to Warrington 12 years ago.

Ken and Joan have two daughters, Lynda and Justine, and one son, Howard. They also have five grandchildren.

The couple intend to get together with family and friends to celebrate their anniversary.

Ken added: "We are both ordinary people and there is no secret to why we have stayed together for so long. I believe we've just been lucky."

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