PHOTO: UK's Biggest Family...1 Baby After Every 17 Months for The Past24 Years

No 17 on the way for UK's biggest family: Couple who has had a baby every 17 months for the past 24 years is expecting 

• Sue Radford has had a baby every 17 months for the past 24 years
• She is expecting again, despite giving birth to youngest son 11 months ago
• Sue and husband Noel have 16 children - nine sons and seven daughters

They are way beyond their  baker’s dozen. But Britain’s biggest family still has room for more as supermum Sue Radford is pregnant again... with her 17th baby.

The baker’s wife is expecting – just 11 months after giving birth to Casper – and she and husband Noel will welcome the latest addition in April.

The couple, of Morecambe, Lancashire, don’t know whether it will be a boy or a girl.

They say they are ‘absolutely thrilled’ to be having another baby, who will be a sibling for Chris, 24, Sophie, 19, Chloe, 18, Jack, 16, Daniel, 14, Luke, 12, Millie, 12, Katie, ten, James, nine, Ellie, eight, Aimee, seven, Josh, five, Max, four, Tilly, three, Oscar, two and Casper, 11 months.

Mrs Radford wrote on Facebook after her 12-week scan: ‘We are so excited to announce Radford baby 17 will be joining this family in April.

‘As you can imagine, the children are so excited. Little Tilly said to me: “Mummy you have a baby in your tummy”. It was so sweet.’ But she added: ‘I feel so sick. Whoever named it morning sickness was lying. Try morning, noon and night sickness.’

The hard-working couple, who own a bakery, live in a former children’s home and use a minibus to get around.

Mrs Radford, 38, first became pregnant with Chris when she was 14. She and husband Noel, now 41, were determined to keep the baby as they had both been given up for adoption. The couple married four years later and second child Sophie soon arrived.

Their youngest child, Casper, was born last October weighing 8lb 8oz and the labour lasted just 16 minutes.

Not long after his birth, Mrs Radford – who has on average had a baby every 17 months over the past 23 years – pledged to have even more. The couple also became grandparents last year when Sophie gave birth to daughter Daisy.

A family friend said: ‘They are a lovely family and the children are so well-behaved. They are obviously great parents.’

The family rose to fame in 2011 when they were featured on Channel 4’s 15 Kids and Counting.