Beverly and Dave Weaver have 50 years' service for Sheffield Hallam between them.

They both started at the then Sheffield City Polytechnic, shortly before it became Sheffield Hallam University in October 1992.

But it was eight years later that the couple finally met when Dave, who works in security, transferred to Collegiate Crescent after the old Totley campus where he was based was closed.

Beverly was working as a cleaner and then catering assistant at Marshall Halls of Residence when Dave moved to join the security team there.

Dave said: "We got to know each other when we collected the takings from the catering outlets on the morning shift. We started talking and found a common connection. It turned out that for years I had worked nights with her dad, who was also in security, at the old campus up at Totley before I moved to Collegiate Crescent. We also worked out that Beverly started at the University five days before me."

They married in 2008 with a number of their colleagues there to help them celebrate the occasion.

Meeting his wife isn't the only major event to have taken place at work for Dave. He also saved a colleague's life.

Dave explains: "A member of staff in the Stoddart building wasn’t feeling well so a colleague and I were called over to give first aid. We had been looking after him for around 30 minutes when he collapsed and stopped breathing. We dragged him to the floor and gave him CPR and fitted the defibrillator to his chest. As a result of the CPR and the shock from the defibrillator he survived."

They both have fond memories of working with the students in the halls despite both now moving to new roles within the University.

Bev said: "I loved meeting all of the new students and parents. When I worked as a cleaner in halls, I used to always work on the Sunday when the new students arrived. I loved that, being there when they get dropped off all excited and then seeing them the next day upset about leaving their parents. It's a massive change for them being away from home, and sometimes they treated me as a mother."

The halls of residence where they met have since been demolished to make way for the University's new Heart of the Campus building, but Dave isn't too sentimental.

"My work colleagues, not the buildings, are the reason I have stayed so long, as they are a great bunch of people. Also, never knowing what's going to happen day to day as anything could, and has, happened. I've never really thought about how it makes me feel to have worked for the University for 25 years - apart from making me feel quite old."

Bev also says she is still happy here after a quarter of a century and doesn't have any plans to leave any time soon.

"There's been lots of change but that's good, there are lots of new buildings and many of the old ones are gone. I just love working at the University. My brother has worked for his firm for 30 years; loyalty must run in the family."