With regard finding love in newspapers, the writer says almost every single person seeking love enjoyed “long walks on the beach”. Their hobbies were “music, reading, and keeping fit”.

ONE of my quiet pleasures is paging through the POST, and at times stumbling upon those wedding anniversary stories that read like small miracles.

Sixty years. Sixty-five. Sometimes 70.

In an age where a phone battery barely lasts a day, here are marriages outlasting governments, fashions, and entire television eras.

And more often than not, these unions have one thing in common: they were arranged.