IT was a dream double for the talented Boys family when sister and brother Mollie and Victor headed over the border to Scotland last week.

The Greenmount twosome both picked up national titles in the fast-growing and fashionable sport of snowboarding.

Mollie, a 19-year-old student of physical education at Leeds Metropolitan University took the senior women's Big Air and the overall women's freestyle title in the British Snowboarding Championships held in the Cairngorms, Scotland.

And not to be outdone her younger brother Victor, a fifteen-year-old pupil of Woodhey High School, helped himself to the youth boys Big Air crown.

Big Air involves competitors performing tricks and catapulting through the air from the specially constructed ramps and, as the term implies, putting a lot of air between the snowboard and the surface.

Mollie's background as a succesful young gymnast obviously comes to her benefit in the freestyle section where acrobatics are vital to impress the judges.

The pair regularly compete at both Rossendale and Halifax's dry slopes but after university Mollie intends to go further afield and spend a season in the French Alps with Victor hoping to do the same in his 'gap year'.

In the wake of the explosion of interest in the sport and women's snowboarding in particular, Mollie has already had offers of sponsorship from boarding companies wanting her to endorse their products.