A pensioner celebrated her 90th birthday - by going for a spin on a Harley-Davidson.

Dorothy Mills, 90, marked her landmark birthday with a ‘burn-up' around the parish of Sand Hutton from St Mary's Church last Sunday (August 4).

She donned a leather biker jacket and clambered onto the back of the Reverend Nigel Benson's motorbike.

Dorothy - known as Dot - said: "I said a little prayer before we started off and afterwards I told Nigel ‘Next time, we're going to Whitby for fish and chips'."

"He said he'd keep the bike helmet I wore ready. All the parishioners were outside clapping and cheering."

Dot, from Stamford Bridge, Yorks., said the church is a central part of her life, where she was christened, married, attends service on Wednesdays and Sundays and where her husband Bryan - who was church warden there for 40 years - is buried.

Daughter Vanessa Fitzpatrick said: "When we welcomed Nigel as the vicar last year, we were admiring the Harley and mum said she remembered riding pillion on a BSA motorbike in the early 1950s out to Scarborough."

"Mum's a good sport and she's always had a good sense of humour."

Other members of the family have shown their support, with niece Sarah Jennings-Wood loaning Dot a biker jacket and supplying a Harley-Davidson branded t-shirt.

The 90-year-old's brother-in-law Bryan Jennings has said her next birthday treat should be a bungee jump, with Dot herself putting her name forward for a helicopter ride.