A pensioner who has retired at the age of 85 is looking for another job to keep himself busy.

Phil Tester, who worked at Disco Furnishings in Church Road, Burgess Hill, for 16 years, is looking for another part-time job a little closer to home.

Phil, of Silverdale, Keymer, is looking forward to playing more golf and enjoying his semi-retirement from the company that he helped build with friend Eric Collard.

He said: "My work colleagues threw a big party for me last week.

"We were going out to dinner with Eric and when we got there, we saw all the staff.

"In 1982 Eric phoned me and said I was joining him and we started up a little shop in Burgess Hill. It developed into a little shop in the precinct before it moved to Church Road."

Phil, who was born in 1916, left school at 16 and moved to London to begin work at the Stock Exchange.

In 1939 he was called up to join the Army and fought at Dunkirk.

He was invalided out in 1946 and went back to the Stock Exchange. But he could not settle and moved to Brighton to run a pub for five years before working in a department store in Burgess Hill.

He said: "At Hassocks Golf Club they have offered me a job as a green keeper.

"I like to keep fit so it is a possibility. I think once you start slowing down you have had it."