AS Fred Marshall (80) and Lilian Bell (90) sat chatting together in an old people's home in Hampshire, it was obvious they had something in common. Staff, aware they both came from Yorkshire, sat them side by side so they could talk.
The two pensioners exchanged reminiscences of the old times and their childhoods. Lilian was surprised that the house Fred was describing sounded just like the home she remembered.
It was only when Lilians daughter Rose Woodfield came to visit her mother that the truth became clear. "That's Uncle Fred," she exclaimed.
After 23 years, by pure chance, brother and sister had been reunited. "They had a nice cuddle and a glass of sherry together and it was lovely," Mrs Woodfield said.
Russian ultra nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky was refused entry to France at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport yesterday because he did not have a visa.
A foreign ministry spokesman said Mr Zhirinovsky only had a visa to attend a Council of Europe parliamentary session in Strasbourg, and a transit visa via Paris, but was not allowed out of the airport.
A German tourist was left without a leg to stand on when sniffer dogs at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport detected half a kilogram of marijuana hidden in his artificial limb.