They fell in love during World War II and have been together ever since.
So Thomas and Iris Bashford should have been looking forward to marking 60 years of commitment and devotion with their diamond wedding anniversary.
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But social services officials have given them the devastating news that they could be living apart by the time their anniversary comes around later this year.
The couple have been together for 66 years. They met just before Mr Bashford joined the Navy in 1942 and will celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in October.
He went to war aboard a minesweeper in the Mediterranean with a picture of his 16-year-old sweetheart in his wallet and they married two years after his return in 1946.
Mrs Kotchie, 58, said: 'It was suggested dad could go to a home but funding would not be available for mum.
'I feel pretty grim about the future,' he said. 'The war didn't split us up but now this could. I never thought I would see the day when I was separated from my wife. We have both worked our whole life, paying into the system, and I am not happy that we are being treated like this.'
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