A couple who were married for 57 years died of coronavirus within a day of each other. Maureen Sharp and husband William, known to pals as Vic, both aged 74, were taken to hospital on April 5 but died the following week.
The couple were married aged just 17 years old, and celebrated 57 years of marriage on Hogmanay. They had two daughters, and four grandchildren.
Retired miner Vic had a tumour in one of his lungs but as it was not growing, chemotherapy had been stopped and he had been due back in hospital this month for a check-up.
Maureen had 'slight' chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), her family believes. A GP visited on April 2, and found Vic couldn't speak but attributed it to a chest infection.