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18 March 20073 Q' ?2 N9 ]2 u
MARRYING THE MOTHER-IN-LAW 8 X2 ?. x# ?# w8 c3 ^% F..AFTER 15-YEAR FIGHT TO CHANGE LAW ; f' k& H2 f# X. o0 p! oBRAVE Clive Bunden made British history yesterday... by marrying his mother-in-law.7 Z: B. z2 W/ y: c2 c
; R: \' Z" Y0 B; ^6 iClive was so intent on wedding his ex-wife's mum Brenda Bailey, 66, he had to fight a 15-year legal battle and go to the European Court of Human Rights to get the law changed. " d9 i1 K, C( e+ S: @% f( T. z4 \' f* m
Clive and Brenda first tried to marry in 1992 but they were reported and Clive was even arrested because it was illegal to wed an in-law then.& s: f4 t9 z3 e! {% d2 U
. c- ?6 V) Y X% ?Yesterday they married at Warrington Register Office - the same one where Clive, 53, wed Brenda's daughter Irene 30 years ago. 9 z! Z1 y: `9 U5 [" s8 Y) o( H 1 y, S) V- y, s4 MClive said: "It has been the best day of my life. I have been dreaming about this for ages. People treated us like freaks for years but now we're like any other couple."7 y. m C$ h9 S: H- f$ F0 F; z$ ^
: ~# l. `/ j f @) E1 yRemarried Irene did not go to the wedding, but pals said they are on "talking terms". : K4 |# p. K( M8 O( b# L1 D# b5 F8 `4 t0 w( E6 a. A
4 M6 [( C3 Y+ f% l3 oDad-of-two Clive started dating Brenda four years after divorcing Irene. He said: "I married Irene at 19 but Brenda and I never got on then. I joke she was jealous of seeing me with her daughter. People laugh about me like I'm something out of a Les Dawson sketch. But we don't think we're weird."" : `) o6 ^' ~7 d9 P R; \7 i3 ^3 ]" i" i6 f$ |; Q
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Ex-nurse Brenda said: "We used to hate each other but came together in a lonely part of our lives. We fell in love."* n. d0 y6 R) w7 p$ ^
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; ~7 a% ~0 ]* m: P" _I SAW the mother-in-law walking down the path so I jumped out and shouted "BOO!" She said: "You nearly frightened me to death," so I shouted: "BOO! BOO! BOO!" ' S$ s1 T! r8 O" W( `+ F, ? 7 ~5 r8 _3 C! T3 q # N/ g0 h5 b/ b7 ^/ d6 F k) CMY mother-in-law said: "One day I'll dance on your grave." I said: "I hope you do... I'm being buried at sea."