A Spanish woman has been reunited with her mother nearly 50 years after being abducted as a newborn.

Francisco Franco's regime allowed children to be taken away at birth if the parents were left-wing opponents or not married.

In the latest such case to be resolved, a woman in the eastern city of Valencia who suspected she was a stolen baby lodged a judicial request to find her mother.

Police identified a woman whom DNA tests revealed to be the biological mother she had been told that her baby had died.