I've started to count again after turning 100... so I'm only 6!

AMAZING GRAN DOROTHY SHOWS SHE'S YOUNG BY NAME AND NATURE

- CHRIS SLATER

ON THE day Dorothy Young was born on May 27, 1918, the First World War was still raging.

The Germans had just launched a major attack on the British, known as the Battle of the Aisne.

As the fighting continued across Europe, Dorothy's parents brought her up in the relatively safe surrounds of the idyllic Lake District.

She was a hit with the men before she met and married George - her husband of more than 50 years.

She would later move to Greater Manchester.

Now Dorothy has reached the grand age of 106.

She was the daughter of proud housewife Annie, and a shoemaker called John. She had one older brother John, who died at the age of 82. The family moved to Ireby in the Lakes when she was just four. She lived next door to her school and only had to jump over the wall to get there. "I loved school, and my favourite lessons were maths and geography, but I hated history - because the teacher was so boring," she said.

Aged 15, and with the Second World War still five years away, Dorothy joined the Women's Institute.

She did evening classes where she learned skills such as leatherwork, painting plates, gardening, embroidery and dressmaking.