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A Manchester mail order business was once mong Britain's biggest names, serving as a pre-internet Amazon-style home shopping giant.

Monty Don has taken to Instagram to share a sweet throwback snap of he and his wife Sarah Don as they celebrate their 39th wedding anniversary.The Gardeners' World star, 67, gushed over his other half as he celebrated their "strong" bond.In view of his 1.1 million followers, Monty celebrated the relationship milestone with his wife.The horticulturalist shared a sweet throwback snap of he and Sarah on their wedding day.Monty wrote: "We got married 39 years ago today - the picture is a little faded, a little wrinkly, like us but the love is as evergreen and strong now as it was all those years ago."Previously, Monty told how he wooed Sarah by cutting her entire lawn with a pair of kitchen scissors.A post shared by Monty Don (@themontydon)At the time of the romantic gesture, Monty said he was unable to find keys to her shed and so resorted to improvisation.He was so keen to impress his now-wife that he was willing to spend hours doing the lawn by hand.At the time, Monty told how Sarah thought him a "romantic fool."Monty said: “I met up with my wife and I wooed her by cutting her lawn, with her kitchen scissors, because I couldn’t find the key to the shed that had the lawnmower."She thought then as she does now, I was a fool.“But a romantic fool.

Bob Rafelson, the director, producer and writer who brought a European sensibility to American filmmaking with "Five Easy Pieces" in 1970, died Saturday evening at his home in Aspen, Colorado. He was 89 years old. Rafelson’s death was confirmed by his former personal assistant of 38 years, Jolene Wolff, who worked under Rafelson’s production banner Marmont Productions.

Whitney Houston’s life is getting a feature film tribute. “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” will chronicle the life of the late singer who died in 2012 at age 48.The project is set to be written by Anthony McCarten, the mastermind behind the Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which earned four Academy Awards.