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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Charlie Moloney

Briton says becoming world’s oldest man at 111 is ‘pure luck’

John Tinniswood with fish and chips
John Tinniswood said he has fish and chips every Friday, saying: ‘I eat what they give me … I don’t have a special diet’. Photograph: Longeviquest

An 111-year-old man from England is now the world’s oldest living man and says the only diet he follows is eating fish and chips every Friday.

John Alfred Tinniswood, who was born in 1912 – the same year the Titanic sank – insist the secret to his long life is “pure luck”. He obtained the title of world’s oldest man after 112-year-old Gisaburo Sonobe, from Japan, was confirmed to have died on 31 March.

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