TWO war veterans were reunited yesterday after 50 years.

Kathleen Staniforth, from Darlington, met up with Bunty Coxon, from Sutton Coldfield, who she worked with in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War.

The pair, who are both now 77, worked together on secret radar operations in Lincolnshire for three years in the 1940s, but lost contact after the war. However, they were reunited after a chance meeting two or three years ago.

Mrs Staniforth was working as a volunteer at the Richmondshire Museum when a visitor inquired after her, having seen an Inner Wheel sticker in her car.

The visitor turned out to be Mrs Coxon's son's mother-in-law, so Mrs Staniforth exchanged telephone numbers and they have spoken on the phone regularly ever since.

Mrs Staniforth said: "It's been lovely. We have been chatting away and reminiscing, looking at old photos of us in our uniforms."

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