Pensioner who spent a decade planning her 100th birthday party dies just ten minutes into the big day.

'She deliberately clung on until after midnight,' her family said today. Her 100th 'was all she talked about' those close to her said.

Despite deteriorating health she held on for her century A determined pensioner whose ambition was to reach her 100th birthday died just ten minutes into the big day. Agnes Allison McNaughtan, of Paisley, Scotland, passed away at 12.10am, just hours before a huge family party to celebrate the landmark occasion. She had been planning the big day ever since turning 90 and staff at her care home claim it was 'all she ever talked about'. And today her family said they believe she clung to life just long enough to reach her century - and they pushed ahead with her 2pm birthday party as a mark of respect [...] Mrs McNaughtan was born in 1912 in Elderslie, Renfrewshire.