A COUPLE who have travelled the world together have celebrated 50 years of marriage.

Frances and Ronnie Stout, of Frances Terrace, Bishop Auckland, who celebrated their golden wedding at the weekend, also enjoyed a second honeymoon in the summer in Hawaii - different from their first honeymoon in Blackpool.

The couple were married at Bishop Auckland Register Office on February 3, 1951.

They have two children, Edwina and Ronnie, and six grandchildren.

Mr Stout, 72, worked at Bankfoot Coke Works, Crook, then as a machinist at Patons and Baldwins, in Darlington, and later at the Dufay Titanine paint factory in Shildon.

Mrs Stout, 68, was a school kitchen assistant for 19 years at Woodhouse Lane Secondary Modern School, before transferring to Bishop Barrington School, Bishop Auckland.

She is a member of St Paulinus' Church, St Helen Auckland. The couple held a party for family and friends at Cockton Hill Working Men's Club on Saturday