THREE children all with an extra reason to look forward to Christmas, are Hayley Dearlove, Elizabeth Foster and Guy Harland.

All three will be celebrating their seventh birthdays on Christmas Day, and they are all in the same class at Bishopthorpe Infant School in York. Head teacher Becky White said the three children were all from Bishopthorpe families and had all worked their way through the 110-pupil school together.

Mrs White said: "We often get the odd one with a birthday on Christmas Day, but we've never had three in one class before."

The trio took part in the Year Two festive production, Christmas Around the World.