Trafalgar Travel manager Charlie Coyle first met Joanne Dooey at a Thomas Cook top performing managers and regional managers event in Mexico several years ago.
It was during that meeting they discovered they were both from the same Scottish mining village of Newarthill – and their parents had been friends.
At the time, Coyler was a Thomas Cook branch manager in Guernsey and Dooey was the company’s regional manager in Scotland.
He went on to work for Guernsey-based agency Trafalgar Travel but when he learnt the business is to close down at the end of May, he contacted Dooey.
