Gino and Nancy's headline anniversary at Cut Italia

Immensely popular hairdressing couple Gino and Nancy Familio have celebrated 30 years as owners of Cut Italia, at No. 88 Kirkgate. They met through hairdressing and next year will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Gino (Luigi) was born into a hairdressing family in Naples and came to England in 1969. He worked at salons in Bradford and Leeds, going on to manage the upmarket Carlo and Jeffrey hairdresser's in Leeds, where clients included Leeds United footballers. A hairdresser for more than 50 years, Gino won prestigious national competitions in the 1970s. After 30 years at Cut Italia in Silsden, he and Nancy, who was an apprentice at Rogue's in Bradford when she met Gino, regard all their clients not as customers but as friends. Their son Alex ran Cut Italia between 2009 and 2015 but has since moved to the United States where his wife comes from.