Twincredible! Sisters vie to be Miss GB

IT’S not unusual for sisters to spend their lives competing with one another.

But Scots twins Louisa and Christina Thomson are to take sibling rivalry to the next level – by going head-to-head for the Miss Great Britain crown.

They will be the first sisters to compete against one another in the final of the pageant in September.

Miss Stirling Louisa, a mental health nurse, said: ‘Everyone keeps asking if we will find it tough competing against each other but we don’t think of it like that.

‘To be taking part alongside my twin just makes it even more special.’ Miss Dundee Christina, a paediatric nurse, said: ‘If only one of us can win, then I hope Louisa is the winner – and Louisa hopes it is me.’

The 27-year-olds, from Glenrothes, Fife, are both nurses, drive identical white Mercedes cars and dress the same. One of the few differences is Christina has a ten-month-old daughter, Amelia.

Louisa said: ‘We like the same things, we often say the same things at the same time and, two years in a row, we bought our mum the same birthday present.’

Christina added: ‘We are not identical twins but we do look very alike. It probably won’t be easy for the judges.’

Jemma Simmonds, of Miss Great Britain, said: ‘This is the first time, as far as we are aware, we have ever had sisters in the competition, let alone twins. Both girls impressed us.’

The sisters are not the first twins to enter a beauty pageant – Rina and Roma Chibany came first and second in Miss Lebanon 2012 at the age of 21.