VETERAN

TV presenter Floella Benjamin, who turns 70 this year, is doing her best to keep in shape. ‘I do stretching,’ Baroness Benjamin tells me. ‘I used to do marathons, but I can’t do that any more because the old knees have given way. ‘I generally feel when you get older you have to do your stretches and your sit-ups to keep your heart rate going. I also have a glass of champagne every now and then.’ That’s the spirit.