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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Ramazani Mwamba & Kelly-Ann Mills

'I always thought I was an only child, but my sister lived just 15 minutes away'

Two sisters who never knew the other existed despite living just 15 minutes away have finally met after a desperate Facebook plea.

Jean Barrow stumbled across the social media post from a woman named Joan who said she grew up a couple of streets away in Salford and had a bus driver for a dad.

The message confirmed had a half-sister, something the 67-year-old had been told on a family holiday nearly four decades earlier.

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