Newlywed Peggy Mason, 84, will start married life firmly in the driving seat... of a £15,000 motor home.

For Peggy and husband James, 93, will spend their honeymoon making a 1,600- mile tour of the UK.

And James reckons it's a gran idea for Peggy to do all the driving. He admits his new missus - who has had a clean licence for 65 YEARS - reckons he is a "bit slow".

James grinned yesterday: "I'm happy to sit back and let Peggy stay behind the wheel. She says I'm too slow.

"I'll keep her entertained - and sneak in a snooze now and again."

The devoted couple, who boast a combined age of 177, married in November after a whirlwind romance.

Now proudly Britain's oldest newlyweds, the golden roadies aim to show they are not too long in the tooth as they trundle round Britain.

Their adventure will begin with a drive to a valley near Carmarthen where James was born in 1915. From there they catch a ferry to Ireland and stay in Killarney in Co Kerry where Peggy lived for six years as a young woman.

It's then via Liverpool to Peggy's birthplace in Richmond, North Yorks, before on to to Pitlochry in Scotland.

The couple then plan to head slowly back to their home in Paignton, Devon, in the four-berth power-steered Peugeot Elddis 320 Boxer.

Peggy said: "It's the trip of a lifetime. We've got no pressures, no responsibilities - we can do what we like.

"There are certain sights we both want to see - the places we were born, where we lived and grew up, but other than that we shall do as we please.

"I want to go to Pitlochry because I have a beautiful suit which was made there.

"We can stop if we get tired or hungry. There's a little kitchen, a bedroom, sitting room, all you need. It has lovely green velvet curtains and the driving seats are like armchairs.

"It'll give us freedom to do what we fancy for the rest of our lives.

"I've heard travel puts pressure on new relationships but I think we're beyond that now."

It was "love at first sight" when the couple met at a day centre last year. Great grandfather James popped the question after three days and they wed four weeks later.

Peggy giggled: "We both feel like kids setting off on an adventure.

"Some of my friends joke they'll never see us again... It's a tempting thought."