ROMANCE is still strong for former Cowley car factory worker Les Bremner.

On each wedding anniversary for the past 60 years he has given his wife June, pictured with him, left, a bouquet of flowers including her favourite red carnations and blue irises.

Mr Bremner, 81, of Claymond Road, Barton, Oxford, made sure he didn’t forget the bouquet for their Diamond Wedding anniversary on Saturday.

The couple returned from a four-day hotel break in Bournemouth to mark their special day with a meal at the Red Lion in Islip.

Mr Bremner said: “Getting married is something worth celebrating, so I have always remembered the bouquet of flowers on our anniversary.”

Mrs Bremner, 80, nee Eeley, added: “Les has never missed a year with the bouquet, even when he was abroad, which I think is quite wonderful.

“Love has kept us together all this time and we have always trusted each other.”

The couple met at the Ritz Cinema off George Street, Oxford, in 1949, and married in 1951.

After service in the Royal Navy, Mr Bremner worked at the Cowley car plant until he retired in 1987.

Mrs Bremner worked as a shop assistant at a grocery store in Glebelands, Headington, and as a barmaid at the Britannia Inn for 26 years, retiring in the mid-1980s.

The couple have three children, Lorna, 60, Karen, 52, and Alan, 50, eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.