A couple who should be celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in Turkey now fear their holiday won't go ahead because of a passport hold up. Gillian and Mark Davies, from Swansea, have not been abroad for 10 years so applied at the same time for passports in March.
While Gillian's turned up three weeks later, more than seven weeks on they are still waiting for Mark's passport and are due to go on holiday on Monday. After repeated calls to the Passport Service, the frustrated pair travelled to the Newport Passport Office on Wednesday where they have been told that everything will be done to get it sorted in time.
Gillian said: "It has been so stressful. We both sent off applications on March 24. Mine came back quite quickly, but Mark's has never appeared. When I phoned I was told that the applications had been sent to different offices. Then I was told that his was being processed, but when I phoned back again was told it was still being examined. I seemed to get a different answer every time I called. It was been very stressful. We are going with all our family to celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. I was so worried that we went to Newport to speak to someone in person, and they were very helpful."
