06-06-2006, 04:47 PM
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Britain's oldest surviving war veteran has celebrated his 110th birthday at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne.
Henry Allingham was presented with a letter of good wishes from the Queen by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown at the five-star seafront hotel.
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In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women".
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Mr Allingham's birthday present from the chancellor was a bottle of House of Commons whisky and a copy of the budget statement delivered in the year he was born, 1896.
As the gifts were handed over, Mr Brown joked: "I think the tax on whisky was a bit lower then."
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