A DIAMOND couple enjoyed a very special celebration when their grandson and his boyband took to the stage.

Delighted William and Agnes Malcolm were treated to a serenade by singer Scott Bevan and his recently reunited Jackzone band.

The popular group recently featured in the Tele as they announced their comeback and one of their first gigs was a family party to say a huge thank-you to two of their biggest fans.

It capped off a wonderful 60th wedding anniversary for Greenock couple William and Agnes.

Agnes, 79, of Pennyfern Road, said: “Our grandson Scott and the band sang at our Golden Wedding the first time round, so it was lovely that they returned for our Diamond Wedding!

“We used to go to all their performances. Scott is wonderful, as are all our 10 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.” A happy home full of family and love is very important to William and Agnes, who have an open door policy.

Agnes added: “We had four children and we are a big, close family. It was wonderful to celebrate it all with them. My mother had dementia and I looked after her for many years — I was always cooking and my fridge was always full of food. That has continued and the family all just come in at all times of the day looking to eat! Our house is always full.” Agnes first met William in the Cragburn dance hall when she was 16.

She said: “I was terribly shy and didn’t even want to go. But my friend was meeting a boy and asked me to come along because he was bringing a friend.” That friend was William and the rest, as they say, is history.

Agnes, who was a trainee florist at the time, said: “We just started talking and it was like we had always known each other.” William felt the same way.

He told the Tele: “I said to my friend on the way home, I am going to marry that girl. But I never told her I had said that until after we were married!” The couple were wed in the Martyrs Congregational Church in Roxburgh Street on 29 September 1955.

Three months later the young couple suffered a blow when Agnes’ dad Samuel Galbraith died aged 45 from a heart attack.

William, who worked as engineer in the Merchant Navy for many years, and Agnes pulled together and their sorrow later turned to joy as they started a family.

Their four children — William, 59, Gordon, 53, Colin, 52, and Linda, 51, — all played a part in their Diamond Wedding celebrations.

Agnes said: “We have had some really hard times and losing my dad was tough then my mum had dementia, but these difficult experiences make you strong.” And after 60 happy years together William revealed the straightforward secret to their long and happy marriage.

He said: “We love each other. It is as simple as that.”