Tap dancer, 95, just 'can't give it up'

A 95-year-old tap dancing teacher who dances every day says she "can't seem to give it up".

Joy Saunders, who celebrated her birthday on 19 May, has been tap dancing since she was eight years old and still teaches a class at Penzance YMCA each week.

Ms Saunders said she took up the dance as a child on the advice of medical professionals to help straighten her right ankle which was not level and because she "kept falling over".

She added while she had been forced to stop tap dancing at points in her life, she always got back to it "quite quickly" and could not imagine her life without it.

"Even now I can't seem to give it up…" Ms Saunders said.

"I can't visualise life without dancing, I just can't."