Gran husband's transvestite past

A 31-year-old organ enthusiast who married a 70-year-old grandmother in Weston-super-Mare, lived a secret life as a transvestite called Sarah.

Simon Martin married pensioner Edna Townsend, amidst a storm of controversy concerning the couple age's gap.

In his youth he admitted to being an avid cross-dresser.

"At the time I genuinely thought I was a transvestite," he said. "I wore all sorts of things, from glamorous evening wear to everyday clothes."

Mr Martin said he still enjoys occasionally dressing up in his new wife's frocks to this day but only in the privacy of his own home.

Speaking about her husband's cross dressing antics, grandmother-of-three Edna said: "If he wants to dress up in a green caterpillar suit with pink flip flops what does it matter. I don't give a monkey's."

The couple have a framed picture of Simon in make-up wearing one of Edna's dresses in the front room of their home in Worle, Somerset.