Twin baby girls Ruby and Rosie, who were born conjoined but successfully separated through surgery, arrived in Malta yesterday with their parents and elder sister.

The family are on holiday here since the father, Daniel Formosa, could not wait for his Maltese relatives to meet the twins.

The 34-year-old taxi driver lives with his wife Angela, their older daughter Lily, five, and the twins in Bexleyheath, Kent.

His wife was told that her twins were joined when she was between 16 and 20 weeks’ pregnant. They were delivered at University College Hospital at 34 weeks on July 26. The next day, they were operated on and separated at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

The girls were joined at the abdomen at the level of the umbilicus and shared part of the intestine.

His Maltese relatives had only seen the twins on the news, in photos or on Skype, until yesterday, that is.