This is the adorable moment an elderly couple married for 73 years were reunited in a care home after spending nearly a whole year apart. Joseph Andrew Bigler, 96, and Margaret Louise Baldwin Bigler, 97, were forced to live separately by the pandemic. But there wasn't a dry eye in the room when the pensioners saw each other for the first time in the care home sitting room. They embraced from their wheelchairs, burying their faces into each others shoulders, with Margaret repeating "oh my god!".

Margaret said it was one of the best days of her life.

Holly Bills, from social services at HarmarVillage, said: "Staff were very excited to see them together again. It was a happy day for all. Both are amazing people that are still madly in love with hopes of being together again sometime soon."

Joe described their time apart as "hell" but is "very grateful for the care Margaret has been given".

Wife Margaret said "it had been hard not seeing Joe and very sad".