Jessie Gallan, 109, the oldest woman in Scotland, on the one relationship secret that leads to longer life

The centenarian was born in a farm cottage that had just two rooms in 1906

Jessie Gallan’s live has been long and rich and nutritionally sound.

The oldest woman in Scotland, who has just celebrated her 109th birthday on 2 January, puts her good health down to a staple breakfast of porridge and “plenty of exercise”.

But that isn’t the only thing that’s kept her going,

“My secret to a long life has been staying away from men,” she told the Daily Mail. “They're just more trouble than they're worth.”

Gallan was born in a farm cottage that had just two rooms in Aberdeenshire in 1906.

She left home aged just 13 and became a milkmaid.

She successfully managed never to get married.