Twins born - five years apart

A Sussex couple are celebrating the birth of their baby daughter - five years after her twin brother.Floren Blake was born in November but her twin Ruben has already started school.They were conceived from the same batch of embryos after parents Simon and Jody Blake sought fertility treatment.

Mr Blake, 45, and his wife, 38, approached the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine in September 2005.Five embryos were created and two implanted in Mrs Blake, which resulted in the birth of Ruben on December 9 2006.The remaining three embryos were frozen until the couple, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, decided to try for another child last year.Mrs Blake said: "It does feel quite surreal. I think people are really, really surprised and it almost takes people a few minutes to get their heads around it."We obviously had nine months to get it straight and to think 'Gosh, we're having Ruben's twin', but it's incredibly special."

The proud dad added: "I tell everybody I can. It's almost just to see people's response. They are really amazed and surprised."Just in kind of mundane settings where people take an interest in a newborn baby and with Ruben around as well, I find it very difficult to resist the temptation to say 'Oh and by the way they are twins'."