A 97-year-old care home resident and former ice skater received a warm message from Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean after making a return to the rink. Doreen Barber, from Stansted in Essex, first started skating aged 12.
She had to temporarily hang up her skates when the Second World War began. But she soon came back to her hobby and skated regularly throughout her life teaching her children and husband too.
Organised by her care home, Care UK’s Mountfitchet House in Coltsfield, she paid a visit to Riverside Leisure Centre in Chelmsford on January 23. After watching a video with words of encouragement from former Olympians Torvill and Dean beforehand, Ms Barber put on her skates and whizzed around the rink on a wheelchair.
