Many experts have long suspected that the human lifespan had hit its limit, with no one likely to surpass the record of Jeanne Calment, a chain-smoking French woman who died aged 122.
Olive Edwards (pictured) is a retired teacher who lives in North Yorkshire. At her astonishing age she is a mother-of-two, grandmother-of-four and great-grandmother-of-six.
Fentanyl and other deadly opioids are now the leading cause of overdose deaths. Chemists are manufacturing test kits in Miramar to fight this epidemic.