Two 104-year-olds have marked their birthdays with a joint celebration.

Audrey Spriggs and George Goble are both residents at Church Farm Care Home in Church Farm Lane, East Wittering, and their birthdays are just two days apart, on July 15 and 17.

Staff at the care home team planned a shared party at the care home for Audrey and George on Friday, July 14.

They were joined by their fellow residents for an afternoon of music, including I Was Born Under A Wanderin’ Star, George’s favourite song and Audrey’s, which is You Are My Sunshine.

Kitchen staff baked a special 104 cake for the pair to celebrate their shared milestone.

"We are delighted to be able to celebrate these milestones with Audrey and George,” said Doreen Saunders, manager at Church Farm.

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“They are a pair with buckets of character and bring many smiles to everyone at Church Farm. The team here did a great job of organising a lovely party and I think it’s safe to say we made their 104th birthdays one to remember.”

The team encouraged the pair to give advice to their younger selves.

Audrey said: “Stay cheerful and always have a song in your heart.”

When asked to share their tips to a happy, long life, George said: “Get on with all the people you meet.”

George was born on July 17, 1919, in Westbourne, near Chichester where he was in the Territorial Army and enlisted in the Army at the beginning of World War Two. He later worked at a bakehouse in Emsworth, Hampshire. He married Vera, and they had two sons, Roger and Bob.

Audrey was born in Nettleham, Lincolnshire, on the on July 15, 1919. During the war, she drove an ambulance while her husband was in the Army.

She later became a local councillor in Cheshire. She married her husband in 1942 in the church opposite her house and they went on to have three children.

In 1972, her husband took early retirement and they moved to West Wittering, where she has lived ever since. She has several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.