A Kenton grandmother who is the oldest torchbearer in the country is preparing to carry the Olympic Flame tomorrow.

Diana Gould, 100, will carry the torch along The Burroughs to Middlesex University in Hendon tomorrow afternoon, where the former seamstress will be greeted by dignitaries.

She has been practising for her 300-yard stretch of the relay by carrying a candlestick around the corridors of her nursing home.

Ms Gould, who lives in Kenton, was nominated by one of her grandchildren. The torchbearer was born in 1912 in the same month that the Stockholm Games started.

She runs exercise classes in the retirement flats where she lives and three times a week sits with a group of friends stretching, reaching and bending to stay flexible and healthy.

Her granddaughter, Alexandra, said: “She’s been an active person all her life and doesn’t let her age stop her now.

“She runs exercise classes in the retirement flats where she lives which are a great favourite with her neighbours – it is a sociable way for the neighbours to get to know each other.”