THEIR fateful meeting was like something out of a Human League song.

But unlike that band’s Eighties hit Don’t You Want Me, Inez Kettles (nee Wilson) wasn’t working as a waitress in a cocktail bar – but a local chip shop.

She was 15 years old and helping out in the Auchterarder cafe when her now husband Norman (then 17) walked in with his friends.

He asked Inez out to the local dance in the Aytoun Hall and within four years they were married at Ardoch Parish Church, Braco.

Fifty years later and the couple, who live in Clackmannan, are still very much in love and set to celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary on 1 August.

Inez (69) said, “I was serving tables and he was with his pals. I served him and he asked me to go out to the dancing on the Friday night and I said aye, I’ll go. We’ve been together all those years but it doesn’t feel like it. It only feels like yesterday that we met.” Inez and Norman’s fathers worked on farms and so did Norman.

After they got married Norman continued to work as a farm-hand and the couple moved from Dunning, Perthshire, to Tullibody.

Later Norman worked as a plant operator at various open cast mines until he retired while Inez was a machine operator for manufacturers Patons and Baldwins and then as an escort for Clackmannanshire Council, taking people to and from The Whins Resource Centre.

The couple have two children, Wendy and Iain, and one grandson, Ross, have lived in Clackmannan for the last 30 years and are regularly spotted out at the Bingo. Inez said, “We’ve had a good 50 years. I think it’s because we have the same interests and so we’re always together.”