A couple in their 90s are celebrating a special milestone – their Platinum Wedding Anniversary.

Wallace Jones BEM and Helen Cook, both from the Garnock Valley, married 70 years ago.

The couple, who live in Kilbirnie, first met when they both attended the same secondary school in Dalry.

But Wallace, now 98, and Helen, 94, did not become an item until over a decade later.

Wallace told the Herald: “We met at the Dalry Higher Grade. She came from Kilbirnie to Dalry, that’s where we met.

“It was at least 10 years after I left school to go to work. I was out on my bicycle on the road when I happened to meet her with her friend.”

Wallace and Helen married in 1947 and had one son, William, who is now a Church of Scotland Minister at Kirkmichael and Straiton.

Helen was a housewife and Wallace worked as a draftsman in the Ardrossan Dockyards.

Wallace, a keen photographer, is also a talented musician and is well known in the local community as a church organist. In 2015, he was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to music in North Ayrshire.

Wallace and Helen were presented with a card from the queen this week by Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Arran James McCosh.

Congratulations to Wallace and Helen from everyone at the Herald.