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17 sets of twins prepare to start school in Scottish district
A scottish local authority colloqui¬ally known as “Twinverclyde” is bracing itself for the second-larg¬est number of twins on record starting primary school next week.
Schools in Inverclyde will welcome 17 sets of twins next Friday.
The only other time more twins started school in the region was in 2015, when 19 sets of twins started primary school.
On Friday, the majority of the 2023 class gathered at St Patrick’s Primary School in Greenock for a dress rehears¬al ahead of their first day.
Most of the youngsters were pres¬ent with 15 of the 17 sets of twins in attendance.
St Patrick’s, along with Ardgowan Primary, is one of two schools in Inver¬clyde taking in the most pairs of twins, with three sets each joining their respective primary one classes.
The class of 2023 will take the Inverclyde twin count to 147 sets since 2013 – an average of 13 sets each year.
Graeme Brooks, de¬pute provost of Inver¬clyde Council, said: “It has become an annual tradition in Inverclyde, or Twinverclyde as we’ve become known, to welcome our twins into primary one.
“Excitement is definitely building for the start of the new term next week and what better way to look forward to that than seeing the pu¬pils here looking resplendent in their uniforms.
“It’s also a good bit of fun for par¬ents too – and a handy dress rehearsal ahead of the real thing next Friday.
“We’re lucky to have so many incredible schools here in Inverclyde with every one renewed or extensive¬ly refurbished, including St Patrick’s which was rebuilt and opened in 2016, thanks to the council’s unprecedented quarter billion (£250,000,000) invest¬ment in our schools estate.
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
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