GAZETTE & HERALD: DOROTHY Wheadon was shaken and stirred when a Sean Connery lookalike turned up to her surprise 50th birthday party.

Ms Wheadon, of Sandown Drive, Chippenham, thought she was going to a quiet golf dinner with her partner Taff Keegan on Saturday night but unbeknown to her, Mr Keegan and her children Adam and Sarah had been hatching an elaborate plan to give her the best birthday ever.

Picked up from her home by a stretch limousine, complete with two uniformed motorcycle outriders, Ms Wheadon's son Adam, 28, told her he had laid on the vehicle as a treat.

But when she got into the car, she was further amazed to find a film crew from Landmark Films in London, waiting for her. They were making a documentary on people using limos.

Still thinking she was on the way to her golf dinner, Ms Wheadon went along for the ride and even enjoyed a spot of Champagne on the way.

But once at the Castle and Ball Hotel in Marlborough she was further surprised to be greeted by the Sean Connery lookalike and to meet her sister, other family members and friends, some from Scotland.

Mrs Wheadon will appear along with the drivers from Imperial Outriders of Chippenham in the Sky One programme Limo Lives, which will air in the autumn.

She said: "It will be embarrassing to see the look on my face, but a whole lot of fun to see it all unfold on the television."