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Stuart Macdonald & Fionnuala Boyle

Scotland's oldest person says no alcohol is secret to long life as she celebrates 110th birthday

Scotland's oldest person says staying away from alcohol has been the secret to her long life as she marks her 110th birthday.

Marion Dawson reached the landmark age on Thursday, January 19 and told how she has been teetotal all her life.

The great-grandmother, from Houston, Renfrewshire, has survived two world wars, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the coronavirus pandemic. She received her Covid-19 vaccine jab on her 108th birthday two years ago.

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