I finally found out what had happened to my mum - after over 80 years

Jean meets nieces she never knew she had after dad's wartime lie about mother's Blitz death

- MATTHEW DRESCH , JOHN SCHEERHOUT

THIS is the touching moment a 91-year-old wartime evacuee met her long-lost nieces after learning her dad had lied about her mother's death.

Jean George's last memory of mum Alice is of being told, aged seven, to look after little sister Joan as they were moved from Salford at the start of World War II.

She was heartbroken when dad George, who served as RAF ground crew, sent a message through her hosts saying Alice had died.

For eight decades, she believed her mother had perished in a bombing raid on their home.