LOVE is not just for young people, say the 90-something winners of our Valentine’s competition.

Steve and Elsie Callow won a huge bouquet of flowers created by Beautiful Flowers, New Street, for imparting their winning secret of a happy marriage.

They told us: “We agreed from the start there was no such thing as yours or mine, always ours. We shared everything: we worked together, shared interests and danced the years away.

“Even at 91, we still start and end the day with a kiss, never take each other for granted and remember to say I love you.”

And it’s clearly advice that works: Mr and Mrs Callow, of Checketts Close, Barbourne, Worcester, have been married for 70 years and seven months.

Receiving their flowers yesterday, 91-year-old Mr Callow said: “Love is not just for the young ones – we can enjoy it too.

“When the passion becomes an early memory it is replaced with a different kind of love, which is a much deeper, caring love. It’s something you cannot really explain.

“I feel richer than any millionaire could ever be. We have our love and our faith.

"Even to this day she neglects her own ailments to look after me. We have a lot of fun. We are both disabled and both deaf, and I’m partly sighted, but we manage to look after each other.”

Mrs Callow, age 90, said: “We are very lucky. We have got good family, friends and neighbours and each other.”

But they were not the only couple to enter our Valentine’s competition.

A total of 20 couples wrote in with their secrets.

Carl and Tina Lloyd, of Mill Street, Diglis, told us three years of marriage had taught them to cherish every minute with each other, while Godfrey and Miriam Harvey, who have been married 51 years and live in Northwick Road, told us reducing the three little words “I love you” to just two – “yes, dear” – is how they have managed more than 50 wonderful years together.

John and Annette Shaw, of Canada Way, Lower Wick, told us they have a special meal together once a week, which they look on as their haven still after 37 years of married life together.

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