Brianna Cry recently surprised her grandparents with a trip to Paris.

Film director, Jack Spring, has been working with the council to create an impactful commercial aimed at recruiting foster carers in North East Lincolnshire.

Two adopted brothers and their school friends have donated their Christmas presents to children in need in Wolverhampton.

Tamuna Museridze took a deep breath and made the phone call she had dreamed of since finding out that she might be adopted.

She was calling the woman she believed was her biological mother. She knew it might not lead to a fairy tale reunion - but she didn't expect the response to be cold and angry.

“She started screaming, shouting - she said she hadn’t given birth to a child. She didn't want anything to do with me,” Tamuna recalls, explaining she felt more surprised than upset by the response.

“I was ready for anything, but her reaction was beyond anything I could imagine.”

Her search had begun in 2016, after the woman who raised her died. Clearing out her house, Tamuna found a birth certificate with her own name on it but the wrong birth date, and she started to suspect she was adopted. After doing some research, she set up a Facebook group called Vedzeb, or I’m Searching, hoping to find her birth parents.

Instead, she uncovered a baby trafficking scandal in Georgia that has affected tens of thousands of lives. Over many decades, parents were lied to and told their newborn babies had died – the infants were then sold.

Tamuna is a journalist, and her work has reunited hundreds of families, yet - until now - she couldn’t solve the mystery of her own origins and wondered if she too had been stolen as a child. “It was a personal mission for me,” she says.

The breakthrough in her search had come in the summer, when she received a message through her Facebook group. It was from someone who lived in rural Georgia, who said they knew a woman who had concealed a pregnancy and given birth in Tbilisi in September 1984 - around the time Tamuna was born.

The person believed the woman was Tamuna’s birth mother - and crucially they gave a name. Tamuna immediately searched for her online but when she couldn’t find anything, she decided to post an appeal on Facebook asking if anyone knew her.

A woman soon responded, saying the woman who had concealed the pregnancy was her own aunt. She asked Tamuna to take the post down, but she agreed to do a DNA test.

While they were waiting for the results, Tamuna made the phone call to her mother. A week later, the DNA results arrived, indicating that Tamuna and the woman on Facebook were indeed cousins.

Armed with this evidence, Tamuna managed to convince her mother to acknowledge the truth and reveal the name of her father - a man called Gurgen Khorava. “I couldn’t believe I had found them,” she recalls.

After quickly tracking him down on Facebook, she was amazed to find that Gurgen had “been in my friend list for three years”. He just hadn’t realised he was a part of her story.

They soon arranged to meet in his hometown of Zugdidi in western Georgia. Walked up to Gurgen’s garden gate, she felt surprisingly calm.

The City of Wolverhampton Council has officially thanked all of its dedicated foster parents for the vital work they do looking after vulnerable children and young people in the city.

People who are caring for someone else's child – or know someone who is – are being reminded that they must tell the City of Wolverhampton Council about the arrangement.