One of Britain’s oldest woman has advised young people to seize the day and avoid the “menace” of mobiles.
Marjorie Hodnett, who lives in Formby on Merseyside, turns 110 on 1 April.
Speaking ahead of her birthday, she said mobile phones were the biggest development in her lifetime, but added that she did not think “anybody under the age of 16 should have one”.
“They’ve got to get to know people as human beings, not things on a phone,” she said.
Mrs Hodnett was born in Harlesden in London just under four months before the outbreak of World War One and said that while she only had a vague memory of her father leaving to fight, the airships used by Germany in bombing raids over the capital were clearer in her mind.
“I can remember I kept hearing zeppelin, zeppelin, zeppelin,” she told BBC North West Tonight.
