SANDRA Edgeworth is calling last orders' on her 20-year career as landlady at Moreton-in-Marsh's Swan Inn.

Originally from Woodstanway, near Toddington, Sandra has reached retirement age and is leaving the popular High Street pub to spend her life with Barry Baz' Tolley, who has been her partner for the past 18 months and has helped her run the Swan since it was devastated by last summer's floods.

Enjoying the ambience of pubs, having working in them since the age of 16, Sandra wanted to become a landlady which saw she and her ex-partner assess several hostelries before becoming the Swan's licensees in 1988.

She recalled: "When I walked in, I just liked the feel of the place."

Sandra said the highlight of the past two decades was "seeing the youngsters being brought in by their parents and now they are parents themselves bringing in their own youngsters".

She said the low points were two floods, one in 1998 and the second last summer that left the Swan - owned by the Enterprise Inns company - gutted and closed for several months of refurbishment.

Sandra said: "I'm going to miss the locals but now I feel I am too old to implement my ideas for the pub; it needs younger people."

She thanked her staff, especially Arthur Harrison who has worked there 18 years, Michael Scott who has 15 years' service, Shirley Baldwin who has been there about eight years and the late Les McColl who was there 16 years.

How will she and Baz, who are going to live in Broadway, spend their retirement?

"We just plan to be together," said Sandra.