Twin brothers at a Bolton school will finally be apart as they look to take different routes in their lives.

Billy and Charlie Currid both studied at Canon Slade School but are moving on in the winter, with Billy going as far as Westminster, over 200 miles from Charlie in Salford.

With two A stars and an A, Billy is excited to make the leap to the University of Westminster, where he’ll be studying film.

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He said: “I’m interested in the arts, and I know I want a career in the arts somehow, somewhere in this realm.

“Our parents have raised us so well that there’s been no pressure and the only pressure there has been to do our best and are so happy with our results.

The twin brothers count themselves as similar but also with different mindsets in how they study.

Unlike his brother, Charlie will stay closer to home and attend Salford University to study fine art after doing A Levels in art design, film studies and Latin with A* and two A grades.

“I’m really happy but a little bit surprised. I knew I had put effort in but particularly with Latin, I found it really difficult, so I’m quite proud of myself.

“I wasn’t expecting it so it’s taught me that I’m better at Latin than I thought I was.

“There’s three of us at home, and we’ve always been interested in the arts growing up and I feel like I’ve been ready for uni for a while.

“I think fine art is a really freeing subject, there’s a lot of stuff within art you have to teach yourself, It’s entirely subjective.”

The brothers admitted they would miss each other as they went off into the world.

Charlie said: “I will initially, and then I won’t and then I will again. Because I’m honestly the worst for texting and calling.

But with my brother gone, that’s going to have to change because I’ve never had to text or call him.

Charlie has dreams to become an art director, following in the footsteps of MET Gala curator Andrew Bolton, who is originally from Blackburn.