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Sarah Scott

East Belfast couple on the secrets of lasting love as they celebrate 70th wedding anniversary

With their arms around one another as they sit side by side on their sofa, Stanley and Eileen Truesdale playfully bicker over who actually proposed when they got engaged.

The pair are now both 90 and later this month will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary, a day many thought they would never see as Stanley's health was poor and his family didn't think he would make it past his teens.

"We are amazed really because Stanley wasn't to live to he was 13, his heart was so bad but there he is, torturing me yet ," Eileen told Belfast Live from her home in East Belfast.

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