'Lost' brother and sister who found each other (annoying)

A LONG-LOST Scots brother and sister have been united - to discover they can't stand each other!

Patrick Joynson-Wreford made contact with Xenia Lewis after both searched for old pals through the Friends Reunited website.

They decided to meet in Mrs Lewis's hometown of Townsville, Australia, and - surrounded by her family - had an emotional Boxing Day meeting before heading off on holiday together.

But the trip was dogged by their constant bickering - and after two tense weeks together, both admitted defeat.

"It's been like throwing two wolves together," said Mr Joynson- Wreford, 77, at the paradise resort of Cairns, Queensland. "We're two very powerful characters, which hasn't made things easy.

"In fact, it's been very tense at times. We agreed two weeks is long enough together. There's no hope in hell that I'll be moving over here."

Mr Joynson-Wreford, an ex-STV newsreader, was enjoying retirement when he decided to use Friends Reunited to contact old classmates. He was stunned when his 69-year-old half-sister responded.

He was abandoned by his pilot father after World War I and raised in Scotland by his mother. Mrs Lewis was born after their Scots father remarried. Both parents died while she was a toddler and she was adopted down south.

Of their meeting, Mrs Lewis said: "I'm very much my own person, so it's been very hard to get used to Pat."

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