A GUTSY Stourbridge great-grandmother didn't let being hospitalised with a serious heart condition stop her winning streak at bridge... as soon as she was discharged she went back to her beloved game only to win again.

Marion Perks has been a member of Stourbridge Bridge Club for almost 20 years and can't get enough of the game.

Unsurprisingly to fellow players she won her match on February 21 together with partner Derek Lawrence, but what followed was most certainly more surprising.

The day after the victory, the 83-year-old started feeling ill and was rushed to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley - where she wound up being treated for a heart condition for three days.

But as soon as she was released from hospital the plucky Pedmore pensioner went back to the bridge club, which meets at Stourbridge Institute in Market Street, and resumed her winning streak just a week after first falling ill.

She said: "Bridge is my life; it's the only outlet I've got to come here as I live on my own.

It's good company and all the people here have been very good, offering to fetch me and take me back. They've been wonderful."