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Double trouble for teachers as nine sets of twins start school in same area

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Teachers will be seeing double in one local authority area as nine sets of twins start school. The 18 pupils will enter primary one in Inverclyde on Wednesday, with eight of the sets posing for photographs on Tuesday.

A total of 16 sets of twins were eligible to start school in the area this month but the parents of seven pairs decided to defer till next year.

Inverclyde Council said the area is increasingly a hotspot for twins, with the incidence of multiple births in 2015 - the year the majority of this year's new starts were born - at 2.25% locally compared to the Scottish average of 1.15% of live births.

Provost Martin Brennan said: "I am constantly surprised at the high number of twins we have heading for primary school every year. "It

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