Age is never a barrier to love and companionship

Margaret Jennings says the engagement of Jerry Hall to Rupert Murdoch shows that there is plenty of life to be lived — no matter what age you are.

THE recent engagement of former top model Jerry Hall to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, has smudged that clichéd image of the much-younger attractive woman hitching herself to an ageing billionaire.

She will be 60 in July and he 85 in March and the revelation of their whirlwind four-month romance has been a welcome celebrity distraction for those of us of a similar vintage.