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Unusually, the one-hour registration ceremony of the first partnership in the county of Devon, England, (held at Oldway Mansion) was officially witnessed by the Mayor of Torbay and his dignitaries, a hundred international guests, television, radio, and members of the press. The BBC television coverage described it as a “wedding service … [that] was part of English legal history” and in an interview with one of the couple, Peter Scott-Morgan, reported him saying about civil partnership: “People should not pay attention to [a couple’s] race, religion or gender – they should be looking at the love."