BETWEEN them they have lived for 207 years and seen some of the biggest changes to take place in the world.

And yesterday, sprightly Meg Melvin celebrated her 107th birthday with a slice of cake and a glass of Cointreau.

According to her family, the only concession she has made for her age is cutting her twice weekly bingo sessions down to one.

The great grandmother - believed to be Scotland's second oldest woman - worked until she was 92.

The only health problem she has suffered from is cataracts in her eyes.

Her son Donald, a former electrician at the Herald and Times Group, says she is still alert and doesn't look her age.

In her lifetime she has seen five monarchs, 20 prime ministers and she was eight when the First World War broke out in 1914.

Meg, who lives in Knightswood with a full-time carer, has three children, eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.

She was born in Dundee and brought up in Govanhill and was working in a sweet shop before becoming the manageress of a cleaning company.

She was widowed in 1960 when her husband Willie died and devoted her life to caring for her three children, Donald, 74, Margaret, 72, who lives in Cheshire and Billy, 66, who is in Canada.

Donald, who lives near Bellahouston Park in the city's South Side, said: "He was the love of her life. She never married again.

"She worked up until she was 92 as a cleaner for a doctor in Hillhead. They became friends but she died at the age of 98.

"She never thinks about her age. If she can do something, she will do it. She's very easy going, she doesn't get stressed."

HE continued: "She still calls me her Easter baby because I was born then. She's more alert than me, in fact. She's great.

"She likes a salmon fillet and an occasional glass of Cointreau. We are bringing her a bottle for her birthday."

Fellow centenarian Greta Johnman was also celebrating her own milestone birthday in Glasgow.

The hardy 100-year-old opened her birthday telegram from the Queen, surrounded by family including some of her seven great-grandchildren.

And Greta attributes the humble onion to her longevity, including one in every meal she cooked.

When she was in her 80s she joked she had had "her money's worth" out of life.

Greta, was born in Rutherglen on August 7, 1913 and worked in Richmond Park Laundry delivering parcels.

She married Jimmy, a miner, in 1935 and the couple settled in the Oatlands area of Glasgow, where they raised three children, before moving to the Stepps area when the war broke out.

Greta has two sons, James, 73, and Lewis, 75, but her daughter Margaret was tragically killed in a cliff accident in Brighton when she was in her 30s.

Her husband Jimmy died a few years ago.

Greta's niece, Elspeth McKissock, 82, from Carymyle said: "She was a great singer and she was really very clever.

"She was a real community stalwart, always helping out.

"When I asked her about the secret she said she put an onion into every meal."

Greta enjoyed a celebratory party with family and staff at Grayfriars Care Centre in Mount Vernon.

The oldest woman living in Scotland is 109-year-old Italian-born Maria Lazzeri, born on March 15, 1904.