Barbara Peters, Britain’s oldest ballerina teaching babyballet. Any dancer would be delighted to pass a top exam from a world-renowned ballet school. But when you do that at 80 – and get into the record books as the country’s oldest ballet dancer – it is all the sweeter. That is the birthday present that Barbara Peters (pictured) has just received

Barbara Peters, Britain’s oldest ballerina teaching babyballet. Any dancer would be delighted to pass a top exam from a world-renowned ballet school. But when you do that at 80 – and get into the record books as the country’s oldest ballet dancer – it is all the sweeter. That is the birthday present that Barbara Peters (pictured) has just received