A Stretton grandmother says she has no plans for retirement after celebrating her 40th anniversary working at a popular fashion store in Burton.

When Diana Guest, 72, accepted a job at Dorothy Perkins in Swan Walk in April 1978, she could never have predicted that four decades later, she would still be there helping sell some very different clothes.

The fashions of the late 1970s included lace blouses, patterned skirts, turtlenecks and trouser suits, but today those have changed dramatically to include the likes of cropped tops, ripped jeans and bodycon dresses.

The grandmother-of-two, who lives in The Green, Stretton, got a job as a sales assistant at the fashion retailer through a friend, who moved on many years ago, but Diana has stuck around.

Diana has been involved in charity events, such as one to raise money for breast cancer research in 2005

She said: "Things have changed a lot since I first started working there. New systems have come in, new fashions, new staff - we've even got a new shop. Things have definitely changed.

"I originally worked at Dorothy Perkins in Swan Walk, which is now Coopers Square, but that closed down and the new one in The Octagon opened.

"When I first started at the shop, we had one of the old-fashioned tills that everyone used to have then. You had to press the buttons really hard and there was none of this computer business there is now.

"We even have tablets at work now - but I just about got my head around them!"

She was treated to a special party with her friends, family and colleagues

Diana still works two four-hour shifts a week at the shop in the Octagon Centre, and her husband, David, 73, still works occasionally for customers from his former plastering business.

She says there are no plans for retirement yet as she is happy where she is and enjoys going into work and seeing old and new faces walk through the door.

She said: "Some of the people who used to come into the shop when I had only just started working there still come in now.

"But now they are bringing in their children and grandchildren. You see people's lives change through the shop."

Her colleagues organised a 40th anniversary party for her at Stretton Social Club, where she was joined by her family and friends as well as the rest of the staff at Dorothy Perkins.

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What was happening in the world in 1978?

The Sex Pistols went on tour for the final time, meanwhile the Bee Gees' album, Saturday Night Fever was released, and was at the number one spot for 24 weeks.

On July 25, the world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born and Grange Hill and Dallas made their TV debuts.

In the cinema world, audiences flocked to watch Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson - alias John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John - in Grease and a goofy reporter from the planet Krypton in Superman.