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Anniversary cash helps hospice.


A COUPLE celebrating their ruby wedding have raised pounds 555 for charity by asking family and friends to make gifts instead of buying them presents.

Clive and Christine Booth, both 62, of Acre Lane, Meltham, marked their 40 years of marriage with a party at Meltham Golf Club.

Later, they presented the cash to Jean Clarke, of the Meltham support group of Kirkwood Hospice Kirkwood Hospice is a hospice situated in the English town of Huddersfield, providing care for the terminally ill. It is situated in the suburb of Dalton and is dependent on private donations and charitable gifts. , Dalton.

The couple met when they worked at David Brown David Brown may refer to any of the following people:
  • David Darnell Brown, an American rapper who goes by the name Young Buck, signed to G-Unit Records.
  • David McDowell Brown (1956–2003), American astronaut
 Tractors in Meltham and were married at Kirkheaton Parish Church.

Mr Booth had a career in engineering and Mrs Booth later worked for 27 years as a teacher at Fixby Junior and Infant School.

The couple have a son, a daughter and five grandchildren.

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Publication:Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Date:May 3, 2008
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