A CENTENARIAN arrived in style to a party held in her honour.

Rena Robinson, from Shotton Colliery in County Durham, celebrated her 100th birthday on Friday (December 2).

And on Saturday, she was picked up a Rolls Royce before being taken to the Comrades social club in the village for a party with friends and family.

Marion Wigham, her niece, said: “She had the surprise of her life when it turned up because she thought she was just getting her usual wheelchair taxi.

“He took her for a little ride around Shotton and she had a brilliant time.

“Her nephews and nieces and great nephews and nieces and great great nephews and nieces came so it was a lovely day for her.”

Mrs Robinson is originally from Wheatley Hill but moved to Shotton when she married her husband Thomas in 1938.

They were married for more than 50 years until his death in 1993 and Mrs Robinson still lives in the bungalow they moved into in the 1940s.

As a young woman she worked as an usherette at Wheatley Hill cinema but stopped working after having to have her leg amputated because of TB when she was in her twenties.

She is a keen dog lover and goes everywhere with her Yorkshire Terrier, Beauty Boy.

For many years she was a member of the Salvation Army.