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Pensioner told she's too old to buy a jigsaw

Iris Milne, 84, rang up to order a 1,000 piece puzzle featuring Notre Dame cathedral in Montreal.

But a phone operator told her the sale couldn't go ahead because people over the age of 80 have trouble filling out the forms.

The Daily Express reports bosses at Express Gifts, which runs the Ace catalogue, later apologised and explained the ban only applies to people over the age of 90.

You can drive a car when you are 90 but you can't buy a puzzle? And what kind of forms do you have to fill out if you are phoning in the order? No doubt this was in one of them socialist countries.