Widow who received over 16,000 birthday cards dies

A widow with no family who received 16,000 cards from strangers for her 100th birthday has died.

Winnie Blagden, who lived alone and had no children, received birthday wishes from across the world in May after a Facebook appeal by BBC Radio Sheffield went viral.

Blagden died at her home in Sheffield on Sunday night, a spokeswoman for the BBC said.