ONE FOOTLOOSE IN THE GRAVE

Huge rise in over-60s getting divorced

- PHIL CARDY

COUPLES in their 60s are divorcing in their droves in what is being branded the 'silver splitter revolution'.

Statistics show that while divorce rates are at an all-time low, older people are bucking the trend.

Of the 78,759 divorces in 2022, 11,905 couples had been married for more than 25 years. Some 6,683 had been together for 30 years or more.

And the number of over-60s legally separating has jumped by more than 60% since 1990, according to the Office for National Statistics.