Dave Green, 60, a bus station supervisor at Manchester Airport, discovered that he had been working alongside his sister, Andrea Urmston, 53, for two years without knowing. The pair bonded over their shared interest in motorbikes and had been friends before a conversation about fostering in 2007 led Green to reveal he was adopted.
How the discovery unfolded
Urmston, who regularly visited the station to fill vending machines, told Green that her brother had been put up for adoption. As they discussed the details, they realized they shared the same mother. 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."
Emotional reunion with mother
When Green met his birth mother, who gave birth to him when she was 15, he realized he had regularly driven past her home in Altrincham, Trafford, as a bus driver. Urmston described the first meeting 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."
Urmston added: "I couldn't believe that I'd got my brother and my mum together."
Shared tastes despite separation
The siblings discovered they share similar tastes, including taking their tea the same way and a love of "tomato sauce butties." Green reflected: "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."
