A toast is in order
BBC NEWS | England | Southern Counties | WWI veteran honoured by home town
Britain's oldest known World War I veteran wiped away a tear as he was awarded the freedom of the seaside town where he has lived for 40 years.
Henry Allingham, 109, was handed a scroll, a badge of honour and a bottle of malt whisky by Graham Marsden, Mayor of Eastbourne in East Sussex.
Mr Allingham said the whisky, along with "cigarettes and wild, wild women", was the secret of his long life.