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A 102-year-old grandmother has become the world's oldest first-year school pupil, reported Sky News.

Weshan Road Elementary School in China offered Ma Xiuxian a place afterreading about her lifelong ambition to have a proper education. MsXiuxin will be taught writing and spelling alongside her five-year-oldclassmates.

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