Two brothers have been reunited through Facebook after losing touch and spending quarter of a century living on opposite sides of the world. David Horner, 53, and his younger brother Stuart, 49, lost contact with each other after their father's funeral in 1989, following which Stuart travelled with the RAF before settling in New Zealand. David, from Sheffield, south Yorkshire, moved house, and despite both of them trying to contact the other, they failed to do so until earlier this year, when they finally met after finding each other through Facebook. David Horner, 53, left, and his brother Stuart, 49, were reunited after losing touch for quarter of a century
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David Horner, 53, and his brother Stuart, 49, last saw each other in 1989
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After their father's funeral, Stuart Horner joined the RAF and went travelling
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He eventually settled in New Zealand; meanwhile David had moved house
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The brothers spent 25 years trying to find each other but failed to do so
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Every year, David bought and wrote a birthday card for his younger brother
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In 2012, he found Stuart's daughter on Facebook and gave her his email
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Tiffany gave her father David's email address, but had taken it down wrong
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Finally the brothers made contact again and Stuart called from New Zealand
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They sobbed over the phone before a reunion in David's Sheffield home
But the happy ending was postponed when either @placeholder or Stuart wrote down David's email address wrong.