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A MAN will become the UK’s youngest ever grandfather when his 14-year-old daughter gives birth this summer.

The 29-year-old was just 14 when he became a father himself in 1996. But he admitted he was “fuming” to discover his daughter, who has just started her GCSEs, is 11 weeks’ pregnant.

Last night the dad – who the Mirror is not naming to protect his young daughter – from South Wales, said: “It’s like history repeating itself. I quite like the idea of being the youngest grandad in Britain, but at the same time I’m fuming that she is pregnant.

“I know myself how tough it is being a teenage parent and now she has to go through the same thing. However, we’re all going to stand by her and we will welcome the little one into the family.

“I don’t feel like a grandad – I’ve not got grey hair and my hearing is top notch.”

He added that his 47-year-old mother cannot wait to become a great-grandma.

“She was 18 when she had me,” he said. “She was shocked when I told her the news, but she is happy now.

“Her own mum is alive, and so too is her grandmother, who will become a great-great-great grandmother. There can’t be too many families with six generations alive at the same time.”

He claims he is younger than the current record holder Dale Wright, who was 29 when he became a grandad in 1997. Mr Wright, of Cambridgeshire, became the UK’s youngest grandad in 1997. His son Stephen was 14 when his girlfriend, also 14, had their girl.

At the time Dale said: “I wish it hadn’t happened but I couldn’t shout at Stephen too much – I’d done the same thing.”

The world’s youngest grandad is Nikola Kostic who was 26 when his son Stanko, 13, became a father in Germany.

The UK’s youngest dad is Sean Stewart of Sharnbrook, Beds, who was 12 when his son was born in 1998. He was given the day off school so he could be with his girlfriend Emma Webster, 16. They split up six months later.

The UK’s youngest gran was 26 when her daughter, 12, gave birth at their home in Rotherham, South Yorks, in 1999.