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Lucky couple still working at bingo hall - 23 years after meeting on the job

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When Claire Whelan first spotted her future husband in the workplace 23 years ago, she knew her luck was in. Jim was the caller at Gala Bingo, in Wythenshawe, and had ‘all the charm and patter’ you would expect.

It was the late 90s and back then a blossoming office romance needed a more direct approach. “I sent him a handwritten note” she laughs bashfully. “I said I liked him and would he like to come round for a coffee at mine sometime.” Amazingly the pair - both aged 58 - still work together, for Buzz Bingo in Stockport, and even catch the bus in sync whenever their shifts match up.

Jim teases: “She took a bit of a shine to me and I think it was good because we saw a lot of each other, with working in the same place. “We met in the May

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