http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Couple-arrested-on-wedding-night.5567423.jpA COUPLE spent their wedding night in the cells after they were arrested at a bus station for being drunk and disorderly, police said today.
Newlyweds Harry and Claire Arnold got into a row with a security guard who asked them to stop smoking as they waited to catch a bus home from Durham.
Police were called and they were arrested, but the custody sergeant took pity on the couple when he heard they had married that morning and gave them a caution rather than making them each pay an £80 fixed penalty.
The couple were married at Durham Register Office on August 10, with 40 guests, in a ceremony that had taken four years to plan.
Afterwards, their twins Thomas and David, aged two-and-a-half, were christened.
They celebrated at Coxhoe Workingmen's Club, with friends and family, including daughters Claire, 15, Emma, 12, and Caitlyn, 10, and Mrs Forshaw-Arnold's father, David Forshaw.
The couple then had a romantic dinner for two at the Water House, a Wetherspoons pub, in Durham.
It was on their way home that trouble flared.
The bride, who wore a garter bearing a plastic imitation gun, said later: "Both the ceremonies went really well.
"But it was a nightmare wedding night. I was crying my eyes out. I was devastated.
"The police said 'We've never had a bride and groom in before'."
She was allowed home in the early hours and was given a lift in a police car.
Her husband was released at 4.30am and had to walk five miles home to Coxhoe.
A Durham Police spokesman said: "The couple had been celebrating, having got married in the morning and having their children christened in the afternoon.
"They took exception to being asked by a security guard to refrain from smoking inside the bus station.
"Eventually police were called and they were arrested for being drunk and disorderly.
"They were taken to the city police station and admitted the offence.
"They could have been issued with £80 fixed penalty notices but because it was their wedding day, the custody sergeant decided they should both receive a caution."
