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Anybody know of an old folks home here where the residents are allowed booze?

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ISSUE 2211 Thursday 14 June 2001

World's oldest woman thrives on a daily tipple
By Nigel Bunyan

A WOMAN who gave up smoking at 84 because it might shorten her life has been recognised 30 years later as the oldest person in the world.

Amy Hulmes, aged 113, from Bury, Greater Manchester, owes her longevity to a daily tipple of four bottles of stout. Mrs Hulmes, a retired weaver, was born on Oct 5, 1887, the youngest daughter of a drummer in the Lancashire Fusiliers. Now she has two daughters of her own, as well as six grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

Born in the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Mrs Hulmes spent yesterday relaxing at the Chestnut Court residential home, where she has lived for several years. Nick Murray, from Rochdale, one of her grandsons, said his grandmother often regaled the family with tales of how Florence Nightingale once nursed her father back to health during the Crimean War.

Mrs Hulmes lived without hot water until she was 94. She finally gave up trying to live alone at the age of 98 but could still touch her toes when she was 105. Her new-found status has been the result of the death of Marie Bremont, a Frenchwoman, at the age of 115.

But she has some way to go before she can beat the record for the oldest woman ever. Jeanne Louise Calment, again from France, died on Aug 4, 1997, at the age of 122 years and 164 days. The world's oldest man is 112-year-old Italian Antonio Todde, born in Sardinia on Jan 22, 1889.

-- Anonymous, June 14, 2001


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