A PENSIONER who made the headlines when she was left on a hospital trolley for nine hours while waiting for a bed has celebrated her 100th birthday.

Doris Park, who was 99 at the time of the incident at Royal Lancaster Infirmary, was left distressed by the ordeal but full of praise for staff at the hospital.

The former caretaker lived for many years at Windermere before moving to Stanley Lodge Residential Home in Bay Horse, near Lancaster.

She was born in 1909 at Fleetwood and moved with her family to Barrow-in-Furness when she was four after her father got a job in the shipyards.

She attended Roose Primary School and later Walney School, leaving at 14 to work in a newsagents.

At 17 she was sent to Scale House School in Ambleside where she worked as a cook and housekeeper.

It was there she met her husband Christopher Park, a bus driver.

Doris then worked as a caretaker in the Elleray Rooms in Windermere for 25 years and cared for Mr Park, who was paralysed as a result of the war, until his death in1991.

Mrs Park celebrated her 100th birthday with a family party and a card from the Queen.

She claims the secret to her long life is hard work and keeping active.