Cherie Blair meets sister

Cherie Blair has finally met her long-lost half-sister who lives in Australia.

Blair, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, spent more than an hour with Lucy Thomas at the Blair family flat in Downing St last Saturday, the British Daily Mail newspaper said.

Thomas, 36, went to Downing St with her 7-year-old son Peter and husband Stanley after arriving in London from Sydney where she has lived for 12 years.

Thomas has always known she was Blair's half-sister, the result of a two-month romance between her mother Ann Lavers and Blair's father, actor Tony Booth, in 1966.