UK woman who lived through Spanish flu pandemic gets Covid jab on 108th birthday

After receiving her Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccination she said: “I’m glad it’s passed. I never felt a thing”

Marion Dawson was vaccinated in Houston, Renfrewshire (Renfrewshire Council/PA)

A woman who has lived through two world wars and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic has received her coronavirus vaccination on her 108th birthday.

Marion Dawson, believed to be the third oldest person in Scotland, was vaccinated at the church she attends in Houston, Renfrewshire.