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1 I,ook at this information. 2 Read the newspaper article.
a Answer these queslions.
In England you can get married when you are 16, I Who are the people in the pictures?
but you need your parents' permission until you are 2 What did the two young people do?
18. In Scotland, however, you can get married at 3 How did the girl's mother feel about this?
16 without this. So young English people who 4 What did she do?
wanI to get married withour their parents' 5 What happened in the end?
permission often run away (elope) to Scotland,
Discuss these questions.
The traditional place for these weddings is Gretna
I Wha/ do you think about the people's behaviour?
Green, a village just over the Scottish border.
2 Who do you think is to blame?
a Compare it to your own country.
b What do you think is the right age to get married?

when Mrs lee-Curtis came Curtis and pushed her into a
Gretfia scene out, Mrs Schearer stopped garden. In court today Mrs
her. She shouted at her and
Schearer apoiogized. \7hen
pulled her hair. \Vhen they came out of court,
Marcus tried to help h is Marie smiled and said: 'I
mother, Mrs Schearer hir hope that in time we can all
him in the stomach. Then get together.'
EVEN for Gretna Green,
she drove her car at Mrs Lee-
this was a strange story.
Marcus Lee-Curtis, 21, ard
Marie Schearer, 15, weren't
ruflaways. The bridegroom's
mother was at the wedding
and so were twenty other
guests. But the i:ride's
parents weren't there. In
fact, they didn't know
decided to get married. But
anything about the wedding
Marie was only 16 and her
until the following week,
parents didn't approve, so
and then Mrs Schearer was
they went to Gretna Green.
so aogry that she attacked A week later, Marie's
Marcus'mother. mother opened the local
Marie first met Marcus
newspaper and saw a
when she was only 13. They
photograph ofthe bride and
ftell in ]ove and when Marie
groom. She wasn't happy
was 16, she left home and and she blamed Marcus'
lived wirh Marcus ar his Bride Marie, 16, with husband Marcus,2l.'l hope we can all get
mother. She waited outside
grandmother's house. They togelher,' she said.
the Lee-Curtis' house, and
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