Husband In Longest Marriage Dies

Britain's longest marriage lasted 81 years. Frank and Anita Milford met at a YMCA dance in Plymouth, Devon, in 1926 - the year of the invention of penicillin. The couple married two years later. Frank Milford was 101 when he passed away.

Frank and Anita Milford had two children, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. They would have become Britain's oldest married couple in February 2010.