A SHOP worker in Headless Cross is having something of a double celebration having just turned 90 and also marking 60 years in the same job.

Wilf Allbutt, who runs the Stars News Shop on Evesham Road, has been getting up early to lay out copies of the Advertiser for three decades - and he has no intention of giving it up now.

The shop has recently been bought out by the Co-Op but the new owners are happy for Wilf to stay on for as long as he wants.

He said: "One has got to enjoy what one is doing. You can't wake up in the morning and think I wish I hadn't got to go to work'.

"It is great to meet people. People come in and people go out and you get to know your customers. I'm not any good at anything else."

Wilf and his wife have just been treated to a birthday trip aboard the QE2's 40th anniversary cruise by his son, but that doesn't mean he's going to be taking it easy now that he's back. His plans for the future? "Work."