Cippenham Baptist Church

According to widespread press reports there’s a woman in Kazakhstan who’s 130 years old! That’s 16 years older than the previously thought of oldest person at 114 years.

Discovered in a census, her passport confirms her age, although officials still have their concerns, one said: “There’s no doubt she is very old. But is she really 130? Or was there a white lie long ago which was never corrected? We need to find out.”

A fan of dairy products and traditional medicines, she says “I don’t have any special secret, I’ve never taken pills and if I was ill, I used granny’s remedies to cure me. I have never eaten sweets, I don’t like them. But I love kurt (a salty dried cottage cheese) and talkan (ground wheat).”

Her Passport