On 7 December last year Grace Jones celebrated her 113th birthday. Three years earlier Grace, who was born in Bermondsey in the last years of the nineteenth century, had joined a select group of people who have made it past their 110th year.
With just 61 of these ‘super centenarians' officially validated and still living (including five from the UK), they are the most distant of longevity outliers. But they graphically illustrate the f...
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