A BROTHER and sister are celebrating joint success after they were among the first students to receive awards for graduating at near degree level at Uxbridge College.

Abbey, 21, and Ronita Trewari, 22, achieved HNDs in Business Management awarded by Dr Maud Tyler, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Westminster, at the college's first Higher Education Awards ceremony on Friday, November 23.

"We are now taking a year out to consider whether to go onto university," said Mr Trewari of Browngraves Road, Harlington.