Friends and family of Annie Harris were gathering at Shipley’s Cliffe Vale Care Home today to help celebrate her 100th birthday.

Son Jack, 74, of Wrose, said: “She’s a very good mum and enjoys a game of bingo and a glass of whisky!”

Mrs Harris was born in Sheffield but her family moved to Shipley when she was a child after her father was killed in the First World War.

She married Tommy, who has since died, has a son and three daughters, and “several” grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Last month Pudsey woman Florrie Baldwin, who in 2009 became the oldest person in Europe, had her 114th birthday.

The supercentenarian, who lives at Radcliffe Gardens Nursing Home in Pudsey, marked the milestone at a special tea with residents and members of her family, including her 89-year-old daughter, two grandsons, great and great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs Baldwin, who is the fourth oldest person in the world, grew up in a Victorian terrace with her two brothers and five sisters.

Some of her earliest memories include the Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War in 1899 and, at the age of four, being taken to Leeds Central Station by her mother for a visit by Queen Victoria.