Woman reveals joy at discovering her mum is alive and living in Canada after 32-year search
Mother and daughter are planning an emotional reunion next year
A WOMAN "collapsed in a heap and sobbed" after discovering her birth mother was alive after a 32-year search.
Anne Guy, 49, has spent most of her life looking for her mother after being adopted when she was just six-weeks-old.
After a long hunt, with the help of former police officer Les Norman, she found her mother is living in Canada and the pair are planning an emotional reunion next year.
She said: "When I found out I collapsed in a heap sobbing my heart out.
"I work in a small team and we are quite close. I'd told them what had happened and they kept asking, any news."
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Anne continued: ";When Les called me he asked if I was sitting down.
"When he told me she was alive and well in Canada, that was it. The floodgates just opened.
"Everyone was crying with me. It was lovely.
"It explains why there was no marriage certificates here in Scotland.
"I'm so happy, it's the best news ever."
Anne's mother, Helen Bell, had travelled from Glasgow to London when she was just 23 to give birth at a mother and baby unit without telling her parents.
Anne was later adopted by a couple from the north of England, but always yearned to more about her ancestry.
She launched an appeal and made contact with her mother's former neighbour who told her Helen had left Glasgow a few year's after her birth, emigrating to Canada.
Anne then made contact with her brother Willie Bell who in turn put her touch with cousins.
As well as discovering her mother was alive and well she found out she had seven cousins.
Les said: "I managed to establish contact with Anne's cousin and found out she is alive and in good health in Toronto, Canada.
"She married a man named Herb (thought to be a Canadian national) who died four years ago. They had no other children I am told."
Delighted Anne, who has a daughter Leanne, 29, and is granny to Matilda, has already sent Helen a Christmas card with some family photographs.
She added: "Knowing she is out there and I'm here it feels weird after all this time. It's six months until a possible meet - it is no time at all in the great scheme of things."
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