A woman who was believed to have been the oldest person in Britain has died at the age of 111.

Annie Turnbull was born in Lanarkshire on 21 September 1898, when Queen Victoria was on the throne.

Brought up in West Lothian, Mrs Turnbull moved to Edinburgh when she was 16 to become a housekeeper. She retired in 1974 at the age of 76.

She died at Victoria Manor care home in Leith on Friday, two weeks short of her 112th birthday.

When asked about the secret of her longevity, Mrs Turnbull had answered "keeping calm".