Amy Hawkins, the oldest woman in Wales, has become a TikTok celebrity. Her 14-year-old great-grandson, Sacha Freeman, filmed Hawkins on 24 January, her 110th birthday, singing It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a song first recorded in 1914 by the Irish singer John McCormack. Freeman posted the video on TikTok and it has since had around 100,000 views.
“I suppose it’s nice,” said Hawkins, adding that the video had “brought us all together.” Hawkins lives in Monmouthshire with four generations of her family. Her daughter, Rosemary Morris, said that Sacha wanted to make the video because, knowing that so many of his friends can’t see their grandparents at the moment, he wanted “to share her with everyone else”. Sacha’s mother, Hannah Freeman, added that they wanted to give some “Grandma…
