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By Chris Riches

By Aliki Kraterou

JOAN and Jack Bare might be

Britain’s longest-married

couple after celebrating their

80th wedding anniversary.

The two centenarians have

not spent a night apart since

Jack came home from the war.

Joan, 100, and Jack, 102, now

share an apartment in their care

home in Codsall, Staffs, after

both had suffered falls.

Their daughter Gill Skelton,

75, said: “Mum and Dad got

married just a month before the

war broke out and Dad was

initially posted to Portsmouth.

“Mum was so worried about

him that I don’t think they ever

wanted to be apart after that.

“Even earlier this year when

they both had a fall, they only

agreed that they would go into

a home where they could be

together. They won’t be parted.”

Originally from Kendal,

Cumbria, Jack and Joan

married on August 3, 1939.

Jack served in the Royal

Engineers and later designed

and made the radar for Donald

Campbell’s Bluebird

used in his attempt

to break the water

speed record.

They have two

granddaughters and

four great-

grandchildren.

Joan said: “I don’t

believe couples who

say they’ve never

had a cross word,

but we always talk

about problems and

solve them before the

end of the day.” She

added: “Sometimes I

wonder where the

time has gone but

then I look at my

great-grandchildren

and I realise.

Jack said: “We are

very lucky to have

found each other.”

Inseparable... Jack and Joan Bare at their care

home and, left, with daughter Gill Skelton. Far left,

the couple on their wedding day back in 1939

Never apart... Jack and Joan’s 80 years of love

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Not guilty... actor Mark Jordon

Soap star is cleared of

bite attack in pub row

AN EMMERDALE star has
vowed to concentrate on his
acting career after being
cleared of biting a pensioner
in a pub row.
Mark Jordon, 54, who plays
Daz Spencer in the soap, was
accused of attacking Andrew
Potts, 68, after he allegedly
made snide comments about
his teenage daughter.
But after a seven-day trial at
Manchester’s Minshull Street
Crown Court, Jordon was
found not guilty of affray,
unlawful wounding and assault
by beating.
After the verdict was
announced yesterday, the for-
mer Heartbeat star hugged
fiancee Laura Norton, who
plays Emmerdale’s Kerry
Wyatt. He later said: “I really

am grateful to the jury for

proving my innocence and

especially for proving the inno-

cence of my loved ones,

who’ve had to endure this

awful ordeal with me.

“I’m looking forward to get-

ting back to our engagement

and my career, which has been

on hold. ” The court heard that

on July 1 last year, Jordon had

been drinking at the Farrars

Arms pub, near his home in

Oldham, Greater Manchester,

to celebrate his engagement.

The trial viewed CCTV foot-

age from the pub showing

Jordon having to be held back

from Mr Potts.

He claimed he was trying to

grab a phone from Mr Potts,

who allegedly called his daugh-

ter Poppy a “slag” and claimed

he would post a video of her

on YouTube.

Giving evidence, Mr Potts

told the court Jordon

screamed: “I’ll ******* kill

you, you old *******.”

The actor denied Mr Potts’s

claim that he had been taking

cocaine and said a punch from

the pensioner made his nose

bleed. The court heard that

after the altercation, Mr Potts

and his partner, Rosalind

O’Neill, left the pub but were

later confronted by Jordon as

he got out of a taxi.

Mr Potts told the jury that

Jordon “growled like a mad

dog” before pushing Ms

O’Neill to the floor and biting

him on the thumb and face.

Jordon told the court he

acted in self-defence as the

pensioner attacked him.

He said: “It was not planned,

it was pure instinct.”

Jordon, who had been due

on the set of Emmerdale the

day after his arrest, suffered a

fractured wrist when kicked by

Mr Potts.

His character was last seen

on screen in January.

A spokesman for the soap

said there were “no current

plans” for him to return.

Pictures: CATERS / PA

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