jeudi, février 07, 2008

The world's oldest woman? La mulher plus ancian?

According to the increasingly unreliable Guinness, the world's oldest oldie is 115 and American.
But according to the Spanish equivalent of the Guardian (posh left), El Pais, it's a 116 year old gypsy woman living in a shanty town in Sevilla (Andalucia).

Her ID card shows she was born in Granada (Andalucia) in 1892, but the date of the ID card is not given.

The area is full of rubbish & rats. The Council have offered her family a £400,000 house but they are suspicious because it has only a 6 month lease and they think once she dies, they will be evicted and unwelcome back in the shanty town.



El Pais, Saturday 2/2. (the double 2, for any Chinese readers)

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