The oldest citizen of the Czech Republic, Marie Schwarzová of Brno,
celebrated her 109th birthday on Wednesday.
According to a district mayor, who attended a ceremony in her honour and
asked if she had any birthday wishes, Mrs Schwarzová said she would like a
linden tree on her street to be trimmed so as to allow more sunlight into
her home.
Mrs Schwarzová, a former teacher and amateur actress, was born in Brno in
1910, when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.