ONE of Oxford's oldest residents has bounced back from a fractured hip to enjoy her 103rd birthday.

Edna Clifford celebrated her birthday today with a party at Parmoor Court in Summertown, where she lives independently and still takes makes trips to the shops.

She said her diet, tailored to her blood group, was the key to long life and had aided her recovery.

The 103-year-old follows the Paleo Diet, which, as blood type O, requires her to eat red meat.

She said: "I'm still at it - when I made it to 100 it was a nice party here to celebrate.

"It was the same again the following year and again and now here we are.

"I'll do my best to see you next year."

Friends and family turned out to wish her a happy 103rd birthday with cake and coffee.

A nasty fall earlier this year left Mrs Clifford with a fractured hip and a stint in hospital but she soon battled back.

She said: "It took a long time to come back from, I'm not quite back to what I was before, but I can still make it to Marks and Spencer on a nice day."

The great-grandmother-of-four has enjoyed more than 50 years of retirement but worked as a cover teacher from the end of the Second World War.

She can now regularly be seen walking to Co-op in Banbury Road and dancing down the corridors of her supported housing block.

Her daughter, Alexandra Gunnarson, said: "She was always worried about making it to the new millennium but she's still going 18 years later.