TWO childhood friends are set to be reunited, thanks to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

Luis Lopez, who lives in La CoruM- degrees a, Spain, sent a Christmas message via the Telegraph's internet greetings service to his old friend Frank Romasanta in Blackburn.

The pair lost touch when Luis moved to Spain more than a decade ago.

But little did he know that all he had to do to contact his old friend was write to his own former address.

Frank's family and Luis' family are both Spanish and knew each other in Spain. When they all moved to England they lived next door to each other in Old Langho. The Lopez family moved away 11 or 12 years ago, with Luis returning to La CoruM- degrees a.

Several years later Frank, 30, and his 29-year-old wife Joanne, bought the house Luis used to live in.

But as they did not know where Luis was living, they had no way of letting him know.

Joanne said: "Luis and his family lived next door to Frank and his family in Old Langho for years and years, so they were neighbours as well as friends.

"Luis must have emigrated to Spain 11 or 12 years ago - but he won't realise that we bought his family's old house a few years later to be closer to Frank's parents.

"All he needed to do was write to his old house and he would have found us."

Frank and Joanne are now hoping to contact Luis in La CoruM- degrees a and perhaps even visit him there next year.

Joanne said: "When Luis left, Frank was still at Blackburn Infirmary doing his nursing training, but he's had a change of career since then and is now a policeman.

"I think Luis knows we have a daughter, Emma, who is nine, but he won't know about Hannah, who is five. It was really nice to read the message from Luis in the Telegraph and we will definitely be writing to him."

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