MUM Sharon Brewer had a bumper 35th birthday present...a 7lb daughter, Molly Rose.

Sharon, of Highfield Avenue, Atherton, was five days late when her third child came in to the world at the Princess Anne Maternity Unit, Bolton, on Tuesday, June 9.

And that meant another birthday double for the family.

For her 10 years-old son, Sam Steven, appeared five days early to help celebrate her 32-year-old brother Steven's birthday, which is on March 2.

First daughter Jessica, aged eight, was due on grandma Cynthia Cunliffe's birthday on April 27, but turned up a day late on Sharon's cousin Belinda's (nee Evans) big day.

And Sharon's sister, Beverley Croft, 29, of Ascot Drive, Atherton, had her daughter, Bethany, on New Year's Day 1996, the same date as her great grandma, Ethel Cunliffe, of Crosby Street, Atherton, who is in her eighties.

Sharon said: "We are a close family and most live within walking distance of each other.

"Grandma Cynthia, of Douglas Street, Atherton, and dad, another Steven, are delighted with the new addition to the family.

"It seems rather funny we should have all these coincidental dates, but birthdays do tend come rather expensive."

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