A man and woman who struck up a close friendship while working separate jobs at Manchester airport discovered that they are long-lost siblings.
Dave Green, 60, a bus station supervisor at the airport got on uncannily well with Andrea Urmston, who filled up the nearby vending machines.
With a shared love of motorbikes, the pair became best friends for two years before Mr Green revealed he was adopted during a conversation about fostering in 2007.
Ms Urmston, 53, told him that her brother was put up for adoption as a baby before she was born.
During the phone call, Mr Green mentioned that his birth name was Stuart Proudlove which happened to be Ms Urmston’s maiden name.
It was in that moment that she realised her best friend was actually her long lost brother.
She immediately called her mother, Susan, to double-check Mr Green’s birthday before telling him the unbelievable news.
‘I was shaking, I was just shaking and my heart was pounding,’ she told the BBC. ‘I’d finally found him. It’s unbelievable.’
Andrea Urmston, 53, and Dave Green, 60, were taken aback when they discovered they were long-lost siblings
‘People don’t meet like that, it’s not what happens in everyday life, but ours are not everyday lives any more,’ Mr Green said.
When he went to visit his biological mother, who gave birth to him when she was only 15, Mr Green realised that he regularly drove past her house in Altrincham as a bus driver.
Ms Urmston said the first time her long-lost brother met their mother was ‘amazing’.
She said: ‘It was just something she had wanted so much and she just couldn’t believe it.
‘It was a surreal moment, there was lots of tears and then we all just hugged. I couldn’t believe that I’d got my brother and my mum together.’
Despite growing up apart from each other, the siblings found that they share similar tastes, including making cups of tea the same way and a love of ‘tomato sauce butties’.
Mr Green said: ‘I have always thought it’s not what you have in your life it’s who you have in your life.
‘Somebody or something gave me the thumbs up that day and things will never be the same again, things haven’t been the same for 20 years and they’re not going to be ever again because I’ve got the one thing in my life that I need to make it special.’
This is not the first time siblings have been brought together after spending decades apart.
A pair of brothers who were forcefully separated more than 50 years ago were reunited in a touching moment in 2025.
Peter Macdonald, 58, met his older brother Trevor Schwartz, 61, for the first time in decades during an episode of ITV’s Long Lost Family.
The painter and decorator, who lives in Accrington, Lancashire, shed tears of joy when he saw Trevor, having spent countless years hoping he would find him.
The reunion was made even more emotional when Trevor revealed that they were meeting on what would have been their late mother’s birthday – a fact Peter had no idea about.
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