Supercentenarian Says: 'I Owe My Long Life to Fish and Chips'

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QUEEN VICTORIA was on the throne when Eunice Bowman, the daughter of a Lancashire cotton mill worker, now officially the oldest person in the North-East, was born.

On August 23, 1898, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, was serving his third term as Prime Minister, and Britain was yet to embark on a bloody colonial conflict, the Boer War.

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Supercentenarian Says: 'I Owe My Long Life to Fish and Chips'

Yesterday, surrounded by family and friends, Mrs Bowman celebrated her 111th birthday, making her one of the oldest people in the country.

Mrs Bowman was born in Wigan, in Lancashire, but moved to the North-East with her family in 1905 following a decline in the textiles industry, which led to a lack of employment.

Yesterday, as sh...

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