QUIRKY WORLD ... Triple twins come up trumps with top results

England: Three sets of twins have scored 58 A* or As at GCSE at a top state school in Yorkshire.

Ripon Grammar School’s Louisa and Katharine Chatterton achieved 22 A* and A grades, closely followed by Lorcan and Molly Gallagher with 21 top grades and boarding brothers Harry and George Stratford with 15.

Katharine, who is considering going to drama school after A-levels in maths, French, English literature, and religious education, said: “We’re very independent and have different ways of working but when we got sick of being inside revising we started going on walks and taking flash cards and reciting facts to each other.”