Celebrating diamond day.

Retired farmers John and Edna Eyre celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary with a family party at their Castleton home.

John, 87, said: "It has been very nice to have all the family here including those from Canada. A weekend to remember."

Edna, 79, agreed: "It was lovely to have them all here."

The couple met when Edna, from Sheffield, was staying at the youth hostel in Castleton and visited the farm to fetch milk.

They married in Sheffield on June 3 1944 and were on honeymoon in Criccieth in North Wales on D-Day. They stayed with John's uncle who was a gardener at Port Meirion and enjoyed a tour of the famous site before it was opened …