Britain's Oldest 'Trips' Turn 81

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 12:17

Idwal, Ivor and Morgan Llewellyn are Britain's oldest surviving and have recently toasted their 81st Birthday. The trips born on 1928 have identical receding hairlines and smiles.

The healthy trips reveal that their parents were surprised with their birth as they had expected a single child. However Emmy and father Danie were delighted with the arrival of the trips. Their birth made local headlines at the Rhondda Valley in South Wales.

A mile of the journey took almost five hours to cover, as their custom made pram caused a stir as the locals rushed to check out the 'trips'.

The were nicknamed 'trips' at the school and with in friends circle, as they were though to tell apart.

"From the day we were born our mother was known as the Mam and we were always called Trip at school. Our pram was specially made and mam dressed us in the same clothes," The Telegraph quoted Ivor, a widower, as saying.

The are close to each other and meet very often. They live within 20 miles of each other.

"Family is really important to us and we like to meet up as often as we can. Nothing has changed for us as we have got older. We are still as close as ever. We still feel young when we are together," Ivor added. AGENCIES