FIVE generations of one Chippenham family got together on Tuesday to celebrate the birth of new arrival Joshua Hiscock.

Family matriarch 86-year-old Anne Jenkins, who lives in Corsham, is the mother of Marlene Hiscock, 66, from Chippenham.

Marlene's son Kevin Hiscock, 43, is the father of 22-year-old Gary Hiscock, proud father of Joshua.

The newest arrival in the long family line was born on March 27. His father Gary and mother Lynsey live in Chippenham. Gary works in farming. "We don't know anyone else who has five generations," said grandad Kevin Hiscock, who runs an engineering business. I suppose most members of the family have had children relatively early. We are quite a close family and none of us lives too far away.

Mrs Jenkins' daughter Gloria said her mother was delighted to have a great-great-grandson and talked about him all the time. Mrs Jenkins, whose husband Cleophoes died in 1987, has five children, seven grandchildren, one of whom died aged 13, and six great-grandchildren, as well as Joshua.