When twins Adam and Gemma Walker were born at just 27 weeks, they were so tiny their mother could hold them cupped in each hand.
The children were three months premature with Adam weighing 1lb 14oz and his sister tipping the scales at 2lb 5oz.
Pamela and her husband Graham could just wait and hope as their children clung to life in hospital, surviving at least 20 blood transfusions between them, 19 weeks spent on oxygen and a meningitis scare.
But now five years later they have reason to celebrate after they bought their twins their first school uniforms.
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