She may be 80, but Norma Shermer has no plans to hang up her dancing shoes just yet.

For the last 15 years, the retired bookkeeper has organised tea dances for senior citizens at Tipton Sports Academy.

Only a handful of people turned up to the first dance but since then it has grown from strength to strength and now attracts up to 50 people every Monday and Thursday at the Wednesbury Oak Road venue.

Together the group, mostly made of retired people, including one woman member aged 90, dances away the hours to music from yesteryear, while tucking into tea and biscuits and chatting with friends.

Great-grandmother Mrs Shermer, from Tipton, has only missed one session in the 15 years she has been organising them.

She used to teach with her husband Stanley, 79, but she has been dancing with 81-year-old Arthur Hobday for the past three years due to her husband’s ill health.

“I have met lots of friends in the last 15 years, not only those who have been coming to the dances, but also their friends too,” she said.

“They have given me lots of support since I came to live in Tipton.

Sessions are open to everybody and newcomers are welcome to go along to show off their moves on the dancefloor.

For more information about the sessions, call 0121 502 5534.