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79-year-old paperboy not retiring yet

Rob Beschizza
Mar 16, 2026
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Photo via the BBC

He may no longer be taking out the windows of nonsubscribers on Easy Street, but the paperboy in Little Weighton, a village in Yorkshire, is still on the job at 79. The BBC’s Simon Spark reports on a “high-vis vest and yellow bag standing out against a grey blanket of fog.”

“There’s nothing I don’t like about the job,” he says in his ric…

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