THEY met in Egypt during the Second World War and now they are in Hereford celebrating their diamond wedding.

Nobby Clark was a sergeant in charge of a workshop carrying out barge repairs. Peggy Campion was a member of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service). One day they met on a boat trip along the Suez Canal, and have been in love ever since.

After the war, Peggy decided she could not settle in the north and so the couple got a house close to her family in Surrey, and they married on May 17, 1947, at Queens Road Baptist Church, Wallington.

Nobby got a job repairing steam locomotives, having been an apprentice engineer before the war, and Peggy started with British Airways, where she worked for many years.

Having retired in the 1980s, they started to tire of the hectic lifestyle caused by living so close to London and in 1990 they moved to Hereford. They had visited the area regularly for a number of years and felt it was somewhere they could relax.

Nobby said: "To mark our 60 years of marriage our son Tony organised a lunch on the Saturday after our anniversary, which we shared with family and two friends who had come up from Surrey. Then in the evening friends and neighbours came round for a few drinks."

Despite Nobby turning 88 next year - and Peggy 88 next week - they are still busy making plans for the future. "We are now thinking of moving again, somewhere closer to Tony, who lives in Kent. But for now we are just relaxing after all the weekend's celebrations."