Triplets John Bennett, Susan Danby and Ken Bennett celebrate their birthday

They were born just minutes apart. And six decades later these Black Country triplets remain inseperable.

They may say three’s a crowd but John and Ken Bennett, and their sister Susan Danby, from Wolverhampton, were happy to celebrate their 60th birthday together.

The trio were born two months prematurely in July 1951 and only weighed around three pounds each.

They marked their landmark birthday with a family meal at Cosmo restaurant at Wednesfield’s Bentley Bridge retail park.

Grandmother-of-one Susan said: “It feels very special to be celebrating our 60th birthday. When mum was alive she said we were a lot to handle when we were babies.

“I was always the bossy one and used to look after Ken and John. I still look after them now I suppose.”

John was the first to be born, closely followed by Ken and then Susan.

They all attended Whitgreave Primary School in the city and have fond memories of their days growing up in Warstones Road, Penn.

“If one of us ever got into trouble in the playground, the other two would stick up for that one,” said Susan. The triplets’ mother Emily died in 1983 but their father Morris is still alive, aged 85.

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