PRECIOUS twin sons of a Stourport-on-Severn couple saw double this week when they celebrated their first birthday with another pair of twins - with the same name.

Alfie and Archie Stokes were born on May 10, 2004, after mum and dad Helen Roscoe and Russell Stokes had fertility treatment.

Midland Fertility Services in Aldridge, Birmingham, the clinic that helped their dreams come true, held a special birthday celebration for the pair and invited Alfie and Archie James - twins from Sutton Coldfield who were also born after fertility treatment just six days before.

Helen, aged 39, who runs The New Manor pub in Minster Road, Stourport, with 47-year-old Russell, said her sons got on famously with their namesakes.

"I couldn't believe it when we met Alfie and Archie James' parents and our histories of trying for a baby were so similar," she said.

Helen, who was suffering from blocked fallopian tubes, had been trying for a baby for 16 years before the twins were born last year and had suffered heartbreak on the way - including the death of her daughter Katie in 1995 when she was a few days old.

When she met Russell in 2001 they knew IVF treatment was the only way forward and after three cycles of intra cytoplasmic sperm injection - where a single selected healthy sperm is injected into the egg - Alfie and Archie were conceived.

"People asked if it was an anti-climax after waiting so long but it has been amazing," said Helen, adding it had been the best year of her life.

Dr Gillian Lockwood, medical director at Midland Fertility Services, said both Archies and Alfies were very special, adding: "We wanted to celebrate their milestone first birthday because of the coincidence of their names, their close birthdays and because of what their parents experienced before they had their beautiful boys."