When Louise put a message to her father in her local paper, she couldn’t believe what happened…

I’d always wanted a brother or a sister, but Mum’s revelation was the start of something far bigger.

Scott Shearer’s world was turned upside down when he was 12 years old. He discovered his supposed parents Ted and Sylvia were not his mum and dad after all – they were his grandparents. They had hidde

As I sat on the sofa with Dad, eating sweets, my eyes drifted to the walls. ‘Why do you have so many pictures of the devil?’ I asked. ‘I think it’s cool,’ Dad shrugged. It was 2007 and even at six, I

How do you research your family history when you’re adopted? Do you follow the lines of your biological parents, assuming you know who they are, or do you investigate your adopted parents’ families? K

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro