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Birthday Boy

This 90-year-old man is McDonald's oldest employee in Europe

Bill Dudley is a great-grandfather and World War II veteran.

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A WELSH GREAT-Grandfather celebrated his 90th birthday today – at work in a McDonald’s.

Bill Dudley, Europe’s oldest McDonald’s employee, celebrated his landmark birthday at the McDonald’s on King Street in Mold, Flintshire, where he works two days a week.

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A Second World War veteran, Mr Dudley, from Connah’s Quay in North Wales, joined the fast food giant’s Mold branch as a part-time member of the customer care team nine years ago after he grew “bored” pottering around the house.

His co-workers made him a cake.

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But then it was back to work.

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