Couple celebrate 70th wedding anniversary

Bob and Sylvia Tadd have been married since 1954

A couple celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary have said that enjoying adventures together helps make a happy marriage.

Bob and Sylvia Tadd met as teenagers as they lived opposite each other in Bath and they got married at the city's registry office on 18 December 1954.

They moved to a farm cottage in the village of Winscombe, Somerset, in 1966 and they still live there together now.

"You've got to get on if you are going to be together. You've got to please one another all the time... but we don't always," Mr Tadd, 89, told the BBC.

Mr and Mrs Tadd have enjoyed many adventures around the world together

The couple plan to mark their anniversary at home with an afternoon tea.

"We drink tea. We don't drink wine... well, we do drink wine, if it's given to us," Mr Tadd said.

"I don't know whether there's any rules or regulations to happy marriages."

Mrs Tadd, 88, added: "We had our ups and downs, and you know, we get on with it."

The couple have four children, six grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.

The couple will celebrate their anniversary with an afternoon tea at home

Along with raising their children, they have travelled the world together but their family say they have mainly lived a simple life in Somerset.

Describing the most romantic thing they have done for one another Mrs Tadd said: "Just being there I think."

Mr Tadd agreed: "Always being there; she's always there."

The couple are due to receive a card from the King to mark the milestone.