Dave Green, 60, a bus station supervisor at Manchester Airport, discovered that Andrea Urmston, 53, who regularly filled vending machines at the station, was his sister. The pair had been friends for two years, sharing an interest in motorbikes, before a conversation about fostering in 2007 led Mr Green to reveal he had been adopted.
Ms Urmston told him her brother had been put up for adoption, and as they discussed the details, they realized they had the same mother.
Emotional reunion
Mr Green told the BBC: 'People don’t meet like that, it’s not what happens in everyday life, but ours are not everyday lives any more.'
When Mr Green went to meet his mother, who gave birth to him when she was 15, he realized he had driven past her home in Altrincham, Trafford, regularly as a bus driver. Ms Urmston described the first meeting between her brother and their mother as '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.'
Shared tastes
The siblings discovered they share similar tastes, including taking their 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.'
