London: Britain’s oldest person is understood to have set a new world record by successfully having a hip replacement operation at the ripe old age of 112. Gladys Hooper from Ryde, Isle of Wight, had the surgery after falling and breaking her hip.

Her son, Derek Hermiston, 84, said the operation had gone “splendidly” and had given his mother a “new lease of life. He said, “I think she is the oldest person in the world to have a hip operation and the surgeon, Jason Millington, and the anesthetist were both courageous to take the decision to operate on someone of that age but the operation went splendidly.”.