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Growing up in trio has been fun Had an accident/injured?
Last month Joy Aldred met Sue and Ian Povey of Grange Park and some of their fi fteen children. Here she On the road? At work?
catches up with the Thompson triplets from Shaw who featured in The Link as pre-schoolers and later at
Shaw Ridge Primary School before they moved on to Bradon Forest. Slip? Trip?
Natasha, Ollie and Kat Thompson, aged 22, have always loved being a trio and doing things together, Medical negligence?
though at exam time it was everyone for themselves as inner competitive streaks took over - but with over
fi fty qualifi cations between them this has seen them in good stead. Speak to a
They now live apart, respectively gether it came as a shock to go to Even on university work place- SPECIALIST SOLICITOR
working as a teacher, a computer three separate universities. But for ments Ollie and Kat both ended up
hardware broker and a temporary parents Linda and Nigel it wasn't at Intel at the same time, and living in Swindon on
offi ce worker. But texting keeps too bad - Ollie commuted for the at home again.
them in touch and family get to- fi rst year, and now Kat's back liv- Kat said, "uni was the fi rst time 600721
gethers are just as much fun and ing at home, so it was really only we split up and started something
an intense time to catch up. the second year when they were all on our own. It was good to be S. J. Edney Solicitors
Having started everything to- absent together. known as yourself, yet strange." www.sjedney.co.uk
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