Birthday

CENTENARIAN'S BIRTHDAY BOOB A 100-year-old woman has just discovered that she has been marking her birthday on the wrong day all of her life. Great-great-grandmother Emily Donoghue, of Llantarnam, near Cwmbran in Wales, had always insisted she was born on 3 May, reports the BBC. But when her son John had to produce a birth certificate so she could receive a telegram from the Queen he discovered she was actually born two days later. "I think she must have been celebrating on the third all her life," he said. To mark her 100th birthday her family celebrated on both days. They took her out for tea on the third and then two days later a party was held in her honour at the Mayflower residential home, where she has lived for the last five years. Mr Donoghue, 78, said: "We had to produce a birth certificate to inform the Queen so my mother would get a telegram. "When we looked on there it was, 5 May, and she's been celebrating on 3 May. "We couldn't make it out because she'd insisted it was the third and we took her word for it. Nobody bothered to look for the birth certificate until we had to send it off."