Lib Dem leader Clegg to be father again

LONDON (Reuters) - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is to become a father for the third time, his party announced on Tuesday.

Clegg and his wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, said their new baby was due next February.

"Miriam and I are lucky to have two wonderful little boys, but we'd always hoped to have a third child," Clegg said in a statement.

"So we are thrilled to bits that next February, all being well, our sons will have a little brother or sister."

The news comes less than a week before the party's autumn conference begins in Bournemouth.

Clegg, 41, became the Lib Dems' third leader in just two years when he took over from Menzies Campbell last December.

(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Steve Addison)