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Luke O'Reilly

Sue Radford: Mother of Britain's largest family expecting 22nd child - with children soon able to fill two football teams

Britain's largest family have announced that their brood is set to expand with a 22nd child due next year.

Sue Radford, 44, and her husband Noel, 48, used a vlog posted on YouTube to reveal they are expecting another baby in April.

The couple, who have a baking business in Morecambe, Lancashire, already have 11 girls and 10 boys.

Mrs Radford said: “We wanted to keep it quiet for a little bit longer.

“But as I’m getting bigger and more of a bump, it’s getting a bit harder to hide."

The video shows the couple, who are also grandparents, going for a scan on September 29 accompanied by their youngest children Phoebe, Archie and Bonnie.

The Radfords are Britain's biggest family (Bruce Adams/Daily Mail)

In the video, Mrs Radford said: “Basically today we are going to see our new little baby.

“I am 12 weeks pregnant so we’re going to go and have a little peek at the new little Radford. The last scan was at eight weeks, and all was good.”

Her husband replied: “There’s only one (baby).”

Mrs Radford gave birth to first child, son Chris, in May 1989 when she was 14 years old.

The couple shared the pregnancy scan on their YouTube channel (Youtube/ The Radford Family)

They have had 11 boys and 10 girls in total, although son Alfie was stillborn in 2014.

​Noel had a vasectomy when the couple were expecting their ninth child, but later reversed it so that they could have more children.

Sue feels like the baby will be a boy (The Radford Family)

The couple’s youngest child, Bonnie, was born in November 2018.

The family, who live in a ten-bedroom home, get through 100 pints of milk and 14 loaves of bread every week.

They claim £170 in child benefits per week and largely rely on Noel's bakery business to get by.

The Youtube channel The Radford Family has more than 90,000 subscribers.

The couple's three grandchildren were all born to their eldest daughter Sophie, 25.

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