Separated conjoined twins ‘really excited’ to be starting school – video report

Rosie and Ruby Formosa, who were joined at the abdomen when they were born, are preparing for their first day at school and say they are ‘excited, really excited’. The twins were given a 25 per cent chance of survival when they were born sharing an intestine and needing an emergency operation, but thanks to the surgeons at London’s Great Ormond Street hospital the two survived. Their mum says she never let herself think this day would come. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

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