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Borough Green: Gladys celebrates 108th birthday on Christmas Day

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Gladys Banks turns 108 on Christmas Day in Borough Green , Kent .

The community has thrown her a party every year since she turned 100 .

Great-grandmother Gladys was born in 1916 in the middle of World War One .

She is dubbed the 'Queen of Borough Green' and dances in her chair holding fizz.

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53

Informative language

39

Neutral language

89

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

27

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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