A COUPLE have spoken of their devastation that they won’t be able to re-do their wedding vows on their ten-year anniversary after the landlords of a North Yorkshire pub were given notice to leave.

Carol and Pete Stogden were set to celebrate their anniversary at the Green Dragon in Bedale after having a number of good times there.

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Having booked the venue well in advance and made all the necessary preparations, they were very upset to hear that Mark and Lyndsay Plumpton had been given three-months notice to leave by pub company Marston’s, and the event could not be held.

The couple had been regular customers at the Bedale pub and felt they were “more like friends than customers”.

Mrs Stogden, from Wakefield, said: “It’s been arranged for quite a while and Lyndsay and Mark have been given a three-months notice, so we found out straight away as Mark rang us and told us what was happening.

“We hung on for something to change or happen for as long as we could, but nothing did.

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“Me and Pete were boyfriend and girlfriend in high-school in Pontefract and we met many years back.

“But after that year we went our own ways and my husband died in 2007 and Pete tracked me down through my sister.

“He had been looking for me for years and never forgotten me, so we got together about 13 years-ago and then married three years, up the line so this is our ten-year anniversary coming up this month on September 11.”

Since getting back together Pete and Carol have always said they have wanted to redo their wedding vows on their ten-year anniversary.

“Because we’d gone to Bedale just after Lyndsay and Mark took over the Green Dragon pub, and we’d had an absolute fantastic time every time we’d gone, we were more like friends than customers.

“Everything, the food and staff, they made us feel so welcome and so we asked them if it was possible to re-do our wedding vows there and they said, ‘oh yeah, definitely’.

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“Now we’re just totally stuck in the air, we don’t know when to do it, but all the preparations were made for our anniversary, even down to the little name tags on the tables.”

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Mrs Stogden added: “We’re really disappointed about it because we put a lot of work into it, Mark and Lyndsay were being so good and so accommodating for us.

“They were re-doing everything in that pub, it had been done to an extremely high standard, it had been absolutely fantastic.

“We’re totally devastated by this really. I just feel sorry for Mark and Lyndsay because they put so much work into the Green Dragon.”

Marston’s, who have yet to provide a comment on Carol and Pete’s situation, said previously Mr and Mrs Plumpton were given notice to leave due to a breakdown in the working relationship.

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