WHEN you reach the grand age of 100 you might expect life to be a little more relaxed.

But not for supergranny Margaret Moores, of Plodder Lane, Farnworth.

For the past 40 years the pensioner said she has been enjoying retirement to the full.

And to cap it all, the remarkable woman, who celebrated her birthday on Friday, gives each day a lift with a glass of whisky in the morning and a pint of Guiness at night.

It is a daily ritual which - alongside a good home - has, she claims, been the secret to her long life.

Mrs Moores was born in Leigh on September 17, 1899, and attended St Andrews school in Farnworth.

When the First World War broke out, she took a job as a weaver at Kershaws of Bolton and it was during her time there that Margaret met Harry, an engineer from Little Hulton. He later became her husband and the couple married at Deane Church in 1921.

Two years later Mrs Moores began to run a shop under her own name on Plodder Lane and continued to get up early and go to bed late for 37 years until her retirement in 1960. It began her non-stop active social life of bingo, dominos, sewing and catching up with friends old and new.

And most of them made an appearance at Mrs Moores's birthday bash at her home on Friday.

Mrs Moores has five grandchildren: Katherine Sandbach, Henry Gill, Karen Moores, Michael Moores and David Moores; and two great-grandchildren: 15-month-old Charles Sandbach and 21-year-old Jamie Moores. She also had two children: Betty and Arnold.

She said: "I've enjoyed some good home cooking and I've always had a well-kept home. With a couple of drinks a day, that is the key to a long life."

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