This was the beautiful moment a family in Tyne and Wear, northeast England were reunited after six months apart, due to coronavirus.

The clip, filmed on June 13, shows the moment Toni and her sisters were reunited with their grandparents after the government eased lockdown to be able to see family again, from a safe distance.

"It’s been six months since I’ve seen my gorgeous family as lockdown happened just before I was meant to visit home. Thankfully lockdown measures have lifted so I decided to get a train home and surprise my grandparents and this was their reaction!" Toni told Newsflare.

Basically, myself and my younger sister both work away from home, I am a land surveyor based in London and my sister is a student nurse working for the NHS in Newcastle. I was due to visit home but a few weeks before going back the UK got put on lockdown, preventing anyone from travelling. My sister Chloe had volunteered to work full time and put her final year studies on pause which meant we both hadn’t been home or seen our family in 6 months. However, in recent weeks the UK government have lifted certain measures to allow us to see our grandparents from a safe distance. We therefore decided to surprise them both and as you can tell from there reaction, they were overwhelmed. We are all very close and love visiting home so it’s been a hard few months but it was worth the wait.