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UK marriage rates 'falling fast'

There is a big wedding on Friday, but fewer couples in England and Wales are getting married than at any time since 1895.

Jill Kirby, director of the Centre for Policy Studies, and Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at Sheffield University, debate the merit of modern marriage.


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