Great-grandfather, 99, hailed the world's oldest cancer survivor, says 'thank heavens - I've still got so much to do!'

World War Two veteran Victor Marston, from Hampshire, was found to have a cancerous tumour on his bowel after he was rushed to hospital with acute stomach pain.




Surgeons successfully operated to remove the tumour and he hopes to be home back the weekend (middle). The great-grandfather, pictured on holiday in Bournemouth in 1949 (left) lost his daughter (right on her wedding day in 1973) to lung cancer when she was 58. But he still lives independently in a warden-assisted flat. He said: 'They told me ''you are now clear of cancer'' and I said ''thank heavens for that, I've still got so much left to do''.'