A 52-YEAR-OLD man from South East Cornwall has been united with a half-brother he didn't know he had.

Steve Sullivan, from Liskeard, was shocked when he got a telephone call from his sister in America saying they had a half-brother.

His sister Janice had been contacted by a social worker in Preston, Lancashire, where their half-brother Dave was trying to track down his mother's grave.

More on this in this week's Cornish Times.