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Sarah Ward & Ross Hanvidge

Scots great-grandad is UK's oldest competitive weightlifter at age of 87

The UK's oldest competitive weightlifter is still pumping iron - at the age of 87.

Bill Despard started weight training aged 15 years old, and works out seven days a week, for three hours per day.

The great-grandad describes the sport as "my life", and earned a silver medal in the 81kg category at at the European Masters Weightlifting Championship in Poland.

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