A WOMAN'S search to find the mother who abandoned her in a Darlington telephone box is to be highlighted on television.

So far, her quest has reunited her with the man who found her, and a former classmate.

Now she is hoping the television programme will bring her more clues.

While the TV crew was filming at The Northern Echo offices, Jane Doe was surprised to be reunited with a former classmate.

As a two-day old baby, she was discovered in Darlington in July 1951.

Wearing a nightdress and wrapped in a blanket, she was found by a passer-by on his way to work.

She was named Jane Doe by the nurses who cared for her, because no one knew who her parents were.

Today, Jane has a new name and is a happily-married grandmother.

At the moment, she does not want to reveal her new identity.

After her search was featured in The Northern Echo, she traced the man who found her, but is still no closer to finding her mother.

The BBC is making a programme about Jane's search and decided to film some of the show in The Northern Echo's library, where she started her quest.

While there she discovered she had been in the same class at school as the newspaper's librarian, Christine Watson.

Mrs Watson said: "I thought before she arrived that we might know each other because I was born within a few days of her, but I assumed she would have been adopted outside the area.

"When she arrived, we were chatting away and I asked her which school she went to. We then realised we had both been to Corporation Road infants and were in the same class at Central."

When the film crew discovered Jane had found one of her old classmates, they decided to reshoot the film.

The programme will be shown by the BBC in March.