Beryl, 103, enters the record books after becoming world's oldest volunteer

A 103-YEAR-OLD woman has been crowned as the oldest female volunteer in the world after decades of helping out in a hospital café.

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Centenarian Beryl Carr, who spent most of her life in Cambridgeshire, still comes in one day a week to volunteer at the Friends Café in Ealing Hospital, west London.

She started working in the hospital as a sprightly 80-year-old in 2003, preparing food and working on the till.

Now, after more than two decades of service, Beryl has been listed in the online Guinness Book of Records as the oldest female volunteer in the world.

The legendary helper says she has loved every second, particularly enjoying the chance to get out of the house and socialise.

She said: "I've made a fair few sandwiches in my time but I really enjoy the social side of it.