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Secret to longevity? Fry-ups.

Who said fry-ups were bad for you? Not Douglas Terrey - he celebrated his 105th birthday with yet another full English.

The great-grandfather, who was born in 1903, has cooked himself a fry-up every morning for the past 91 years - that’s 33,215 hearty breakfasts. And he is still going strong.

Mr Terrey, of Marchwood, near Southampton, Hants, began his breakfast routine when he joined the Army as a dispatch boy, aged 13. “When I got my first job in the Army I would go to work on a good breakfast and I knew I wouldn’t get hungry,” he said.

The retired engineer eats four rashers of bacon, a sausage, two eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding and three slices of toast each morning. And in a nod to healthy eating, he also wolfs down a bowl of cereal.

“I have been eating a fried breakfast for years and years now,” he said. I think this kind of food is wholesome - like the food we used to have in the old days.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .