Pharmacist Betty, 91, retires after 59 years

Betty Pritchard has yet decided to discontinue from her occupation astatine a assemblage pharmacy aft 59 years - and astatine the property of 91.

She started astatine Watkin-Davies successful Bettws, Newport, successful 1965 but had spent the erstwhile 13 years moving astatine different pharmacy.

Mrs Pritchard, from Bassaleg, Newport, regularly took 2 buses to enactment and backmost each time but has present decided to telephone it a day.

"I'm truthful fortunate to person had this job," she said.

Mrs Pritchard antecedently told BBC News she decided to enactment agelong aft galore peers had enactment their feet up due to the fact that she had "seen truthful galore radical discontinue and autumn apart".

She besides recalled however pharmacies had changed during her career.

"When I archetypal started work, you could bargain poppy heads - opium," she said.

"It was make-your-own medicine. Then everything became pre-packed."

Colleagues and residents threw Mrs Pritchard a status enactment with cake, flowers and champagne to accidental farewell.

"It's conscionable a beauteous spot to work," she said. "I've made truthful galore friends."

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board described Mrs Pritchard arsenic the "heart and psyche of the assemblage pharmacy, dedicating herself to helping others since joining successful the aboriginal 1960s".