Wolverhampton: Siblings meet for first time aged 79 and 86

Long-lost siblings said their lives had changed forever when they discovered each other’s existence after more than seven decades.

It was Michael Hamson, 79, taking a DNA test that led to him learning he had an older sister – shock news that resulted in the first meeting between he and Judith Tomblin, 86.

The pair, who found out they shared a dad, said they had become virtually inseparable since, speaking every night on the phone.

“It was just a normal life,” Mr Hamson explained. “Then this cropped up and it was weird – I’ve now got a lovely sister.”