A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER-OF-SIX has celebrated her 100th birthday - with four parties.

Gladys Plant, who also has four grandchildren, first marked the big day with a party at St Germain's Grange Day Centre, in Redcar.

She was presented with flowers and a ballerina cake by Carole Simms, Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland, and Councillor Sheelagh Clarke.

Councillor Clarke said: “It is wonderful to be able to share in Gladys’ birthday and be able to congratulate her on reaching such a remarkable milestone.

"It was a real swinging event with Gladys at the centre of it showing that she can still dance to a good tune.”

She also had a party at home with family and friends, and will celebrate her birthday later in the week with the reading group at Marske Library and with Zetland Park luncheon club.

Carol Davidson, her daughter, added: "She is having a wonderful week."

Gladys was born in Oldham, near Manchester, on December 13, 1914. She moved to Marske, in Redcar, in 1965 after her husband, Arnold, got a job in a solicitor's office.

She was a ballet dancer in her spare time for ten years in her late-teens and early 20s.

Her first job was as a weaver and she later spent four years working as a post lady.