Veteran Dorothea, 100, is a total brick

HUNDRED-year-old Dorothea Barron gets stuck into helping rebuild her Second World War barracks as affordable homes.

- By Neil Pooran

The former Wren laid the first brick as construction began at the site near Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth.

She said: “This is so exciting, I feel so honoured! It’s worth being 100 for this!”

The heroine, who arrived in a black cab driven by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, said she felt her departed comrades “watching” her.