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Read all about it – we’re still madly in love
They met through the pages of the Express & Star – and 25 years after getting married Linda and Paul Bate are still very much in love.
Linda had an advert published on her birthday, November 30 1992, asking for a “fun loving” man aged 28-40, and it didn’t take long for Paul to get in touch.
The pair met at a pub in Dudley on December 18 and began their whirlwind romance.
“He answered it and had to send off a letter for me. He didn’t send a picture but I met him anyway,” Linda said.
“We went to the pub and were just getting to know each other and it took off.”
The Netherton couple tied the knot on June 4 1994 at Dudley Wood Methodist Church on Quarry Road and they haven’t looked back since.
