A 100-YEAR-OLD woman has celebrated her milestone birthday with a bit of a do.

Doreen Nussey was joined by family and friends at Stinchcombe Manor Nursing Home to mark the occasion of reaching her one hundredth year on December 10.

The centenarian said she was delighted to receive a telegram from the Queen, which she is pictured holding above.

Well wishers brought along a cake, a special ‘100th birthday’ balloon and a bouquet of flowers too.

When asked how it feels to be one hundred, Doreen said: “It’s alright, as long as things are going well.”

Care home manager, Heather Woodward said: “Doreen’s a lovely, lovely lady.

“She’s not been with us very long, but she’s become part of the Stinchcombe manor family very quickly, and people are very fond of her.”

Doreen lived in Pembrokeshire, before recently moving to Stinchcombe, to be closer to her daughter Lisa Gunston, who lives in Cam.

Born in Warminster, Wiltshire in 1918, Doreen married a pharmacist in the early part of the Second World War.

The couple went on to run a chemist shop in Sherbourne, Dorset, where they lived above the shop, and raised a son and two daughters.

They lived above the shop until retirement, but then didn’t move far - choosing to have new house built at the back of the store and settling in there.