Hazel Whittaker has kept her advice for a long life pretty short: a little whisky in her first cup of tea of the day.

The 106-year-old, who survived bombings during World War Two, is celebrating her landmark birthday on Saturday after a party in her honour at Cheslyn Hay Village Hall in Staffordshire, near Walsall, on Friday.

“I can remember the bombs dropping over Cheslyn Hay, the whistling bombs,” she said.

Whittaker was one of six children, born in 1920, and worked at English Electric in Stafford during the war, when the county town was a major industrial hub.

She later had a son and a daughter, but has outlived her children. She has two grandchildren and two great-grandsons.

At Friday’s party there was cake, a ukulele band and a card from King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

They said: “It gives us great pleasure to send you our sincere congratulations and special wishes”.

Asked for her advice to others, Whittaker said: “Lead a good life, keep off the drugs and cigarettes.”

Her granddaughter, Shelley Wardle, joined her at the party and is due to take her out for a meal on her birthday.

“She is great, she is still really independent, she still does baking when she feels like it, she goes to the pub every Tuesday for lunch, if she had her way, she would go out every day,” Wardle said. “She loves quizzes, bingo, singalongs, going out for meals, she is really positive.”

Whittaker lives in Pinfold House and “sangria is one of the top drinks she likes to drink with her friends”.

Stephen Hollis, chairman of Cheslyn Hay Parish Council, helped with the party.

“She is bubbly, and the life and soul of the party, she is really good,” he said.

“A lot of the people in Pinfold speak very highly of her, they all wanted to come and make sure she had a good time.”

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