A WOMAN who spent 50 years of her life believing she was an only child met her sister in Blackburn after a 40 year search.

June Langstreth, 55, of Shearwater Drive, Blackburn and Christine DuBerry, 50, of West Midlands grew up as strangers a few streets apart and even went to the same school.

Christine and husband Eric drove from the Midlands to be re-united with her long-lost sister in Blackburn.