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BBC News
10 hours ago
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- BBC News
Moray schoolgirl's message in a bottle gets reply from Norway 31 years later
A Scottish schoolgirl's message in a bottle has finally received a reply more than 30 years later - after being discovered in Beresford, from Portknockie in Moray, sent the message in 1994 when she was 12 as part of a school washed up across the North Sea where it was found by a volunteer cleaning up a Norwegian island - who then dispatched a postcard to the delighted sender to let her told BBC Scotland News she could not believe her original letter was in such good condition after three decades. Her handwritten letter had been sent in an empty bottle of Moray Cup, a fizzy drink produced in the north east of Scotland. It said: "Dear finder. My name is Alaina Stephen and I am 12 years of age. I come from Portknockie and I am doing a project on water so I decided to send a message in a bottle."My teacher's husband took them and dropped them in the middle of the ocean."When you find this message, please write back with your name, hobbies, where you found the message, when, and if you could, a little information about your area. Yours sincerely, Alaina Stephen. PS I come from Scotland." Now, 31 years on, Alaina has received a postcard from Pia Brodtmann, telling her the good news, with pictures of the said: "My name is Pia and I am from Germany. Today I found your message in a bottle on Lisshelløya, a tiny island around Vega in Norway."I am here for beach cleaning as a volunteer for four months and today we cleaned Lisshelløya. On the front of the postcard you can see our workboat Nemo and our sailboat Fonn, where we live. You can also see the area around Vega. I wonder when and where your teacher's husband threw your bottle in the ocean?"It added: "PS I am 27 years old and I like rock climbing and sailing a lot!" Alaina, now 42, said she as stunned when she picked up the post and noticed the postcard addressed to herself."I'm at the same address," she said."I did live in Buckie, and another house in Portknockie for a while, but moved back in with my parents."I couldn't believe it, as I had sent it when I was 12 years old, 31 years ago." Alaina was able to find Pia via social media, and messaged her asking to send a photo of her letter."I was shocked when she did, I couldn't believe how legible it was," she said."I can't remember actually writing the message, but I do remember it was a Moray Cup bottle, and that my teacher's husband had dropped it into the sea when he was a fisherman."According to my message, I had done it as part of a project on water. It was when I was in P7."She added: "Pia and I have been keeping in touch and hopefully we will continue to do so."
Yahoo
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Five quirky stories you missed this week as woman receives reply to message after 30 years
A woman who received a reply more than 30 years after she threw a message in a bottle into the sea is one of our five bizarre local news stories you may have missed this week. The Daily Record reported how Alaina Beresford, from Portknockie in Scotland, was shocked to receive a postcard from someone who had found the bottle washed up on a beach in Norway. Elsewhere, a seagull in Cornwall was caught on camera stealing a maintenance worker's mug, and a lollipop man in Yorkshire has been ordered not to give high fives to children he helps cross the road. You can read the full version of each of our selected articles through the links under each story – or read more top headlines from around the UK's regions on the Yahoo UK local news page. A woman who sent a message in a bottle as a girl has received a reply from 2,000 miles away - over 30 years after chucking it into the sea. Alaina Beresford was just 12 years old when she wrote a message and popped it into an empty bottle of iconic North East drink Moray Cup. And now, 31 years later, Alaina received the surprise of her life when that message got a response. Read the full story from the Daily Record A popular Stokesley pub has been named among finalist for the Best Pub for Dogs Award. The owner of The Mill, Alex Cook, says it was his own personal experience that led the way in creating a truly dog-friendly pub environment. The 43-year-old and his team are in the running for another award at The Great British Pub Awards, which takes place in September. In recent years, the pub has committed to catering for dog owners making it an experience for pups stopping by at the end of their walks. Read the full story from Teesside Live A beloved lollipop man has been told he can no longer give 'high fives' to children as they cross the road. Neil Cotton, 57, who assists primary and secondary pupils in Howden, near Hull, East Yorkshire, claims he's been instructed to stop the friendly gesture as it "upsets some drivers having to wait another ten seconds". Read the full story from Yorkshire Live A Herefordshire shop dealing in medals and military antiques is displaying another fascinating piece of history. War & Son Medal and Military Antiques based in Leominster have a piece of Adolf Hitler's marble map table from the Chancellery in Berlin at the end of the Second World War, thanks to the family of a British war veteran. Read the full story from the Hereford Times A maintenance man who had been bird-proofing a Cornish harbour town found himself the victim of a very unusual 'mugging', when a seagull got its own back - by flying off with his coffee mug. The caffeine-craving winged menace was pictured in full flight, with his victim's mug still hanging out of its beak. Read the full story from Cornwall Live
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
'I got the surprise of my life after throwing empty bottle into sea decades ago'
When Alaina Beresford was 12, she committed her message to the sea in an empty bottle of Moray Cup fizzy pop and now decades later she has received the surprise of her life When Alaina Beresford chucked a message in a bottle into the sea aged just 12, she though little of it. But she was staggered this week - 31 years on - to received a postcard explaining her old message had been found. It washed up nearly 725 miles away on a beach in Norway and was eventually discovered this week by Pia Brodtmann, who was volunteering with a charity on the sand. The 27-year-old woman replied, sending a postcard alongside a montage of fascinating photographs. These include pictures of the message in a bottle, the boat Pia is living on (called the Nemo), and the area she's working in. Amazed to see her note had been discovered and was still legible, Alaina, 43, said: "When I went and checked my mail and thought 'what's this, a postcard?' - not something you see a lot - and when I turned it over it had my name on it. "The message from Pia said she'd found my message in a bottle near on a tiny island called Lisshelløya near Vega in Norway. She's there working as a volunteer doing beach cleaning with a charity called In the Same Boat for four months. The postcard was a wonderful, a montage of photos showing my message in a bottle, the boat she's on, the Nemo, and the area she's working in." Alaina, from from Portknockie, Moray, now intends to keep in touch with Pia on Facebook. She continued: "I was just so shocked that somebody had found the message I sent all those years ago. It was amazing that my note was still perfectly legible - even the old Moray Cup bottle was in good shape! "As far as I can remember we were doing a project on water with our P7 teacher Ann Bruce and part of that was doing a message in a bottle. I think her husband was a fisherman and he threw the bottle into the sea when he was out with the boat." Alaina added that she would love to get in touch with her former teacher but does not have an address or contact details. READ MORE: Prestwick Beach horror find as leg still wearing shoe and sock washes ashore For Pia herself, finding the bottle on Lisshelløya was something of a prophecy. She explained: "The day I found the bottle we cleaned two small exposed islands, Lisshelløya and Storhelløya, although we didn't finish Storhelløya. "I found the message between some rocks on Lisshelløya. I had already noticed before I picking it up, that the bottle wasn't broken or full of water like so many other bottles I had found that day. "It looked a bit different, probably because of the paper inside. When I picked it up and saw the folded paper with the little text 'To the finder" inside, I knew this one would be special. "It's kind of funny, though, because I said at the start of the clean up something like 'If we don't find a message in a bottle on this island, then I don't know where else we would'. "I said that because in just the first few minutes we had been finding almost only bottles and some fishing gear. I read the message during our lunch break with my crewmembers. "I wasn't too surprised that it had come all the way from Scotland because I have already found some stuff from Scotland before, but I felt really happy about the little message, especially because the address was still readable. I was just curious when it had been written. Writing a reply was never in doubt for Pia. She continued: "I thought Alaina would be really happy to know that her bottle had been found. She wrote in her note that she wanted to know who found it and where exactly it was found. "I wanted to give her this information and make her day special, like she made my day special. Also I just like the idea of people randomly getting in touch this way. And maybe I was hoping for a pen pal across borders, because I enjoy the old ways of communicating like postcards and letters. "Everyone is happy if there is something unexpectedly nice in the mail, while getting something digital via WhatsApp is less special and it can stress you out. "When Alaina told me how old the message was, I almost freaked out. The idea that this bottle had been out there, either in the ocean or lying on the island, for over 30 years is just really crazy. "It looked like it had been thrown in the sea something between some months and five years ago. The first thing I said after reading Alaina's replay was something like 'Wow, what were the chances that she still lives in that house?!', but after she sent me some pictures from the coastline literally right in front of her home, I could totally understand why she is still living there. It's just beautiful." Pia has been with the Norwegian In the Same Boat project since April this year and will remain with them until the end of July. Having recently finished her bachelor's degree she wanted to travel around Europe and improve her English. A love of the rugged Scandinavian landscape and a drive to do something to help the planet drew her to the project, which aims to fight marine pollution - especially plastic - along the Norwegian coastline. Pia added: "The main method In the Same Boat uses to fight marine litter, besides raising awareness, is beach cleaning, but 'beach' in Norway isn't really the right word. "Norway's coastline is mostly rocky, wild and remote, not a sandy beach. So we hike, climb and sometimes even crawl over and under rocks to collect the plastic before it becomes microplastic. "Then we carry all the heavy bags of trash to the next spot, where the workboat can come and pick it up. The organisation is made up of employed skippers and volunteers. "We all live together on sailboats, which allows us to move directly into the polluted areas. That saves time, emissions and costs. Lisshelløya, the tiny island where I found the message in a bottle - is so tiny that you can probably walk around in just five minutes. we picked and removed 1020kg of marine litter. Even though the island probably hadn't been cleaned before, this amount of trash is just insane."
Daily Record
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Scots woman received response to message in a bottle 30 years after releasing
"The postcard was a wonderful, a montage of photos showing my message in a bottle, the boat she's on, the Nemo, and the area she's working in." A woman who sent a message in a bottle as a girl has received a reply from 2,000 miles away - over 30 years after chucking it into the sea. Alaina Beresford was just 12-years-old when she wrote a messaged and popped it into an empty bottle of iconic North-East drink, Moray Cup. And now, 31 years, later Alaina received the surprise of her life when that message got a response. Alaina, from Portknockie, was shocked to find a postcard had arrived for her one day. She explained: "When I went and checked my mail and thought 'what's this, a postcard?' - not something you see a lot - and when I turned it over it had my name on it." Pia Brodtmann, a 27-year-old from Germany, wrote to Alaina saying she had found the message in a bottle, which had washed up on a Norwegian beach. Alaina added: "The message from Pia said she'd found my message in a bottle near on a tiny island called Lisshell ya near Vega in Norway. She's there working as a volunteer doing beach cleaning with a charity called In the Same Boat for four months. "The postcard was a wonderful, a montage of photos showing my message in a bottle, the boat she's on, the Nemo, and the area she's working in. I was just so shocked that somebody had found the message I sent all those years ago. "It was amazing that my note was still perfectly legible - even the old Moray Cup bottle was in good shape! As far as I can remember we were doing a project on water with our P7 teacher Ann Bruce and part of that was doing a message in a bottle. "I think her husband was a fisherman and he threw the bottle into the sea when he was out with the boat." Alaina added that she would love to get in touch with her former teacher but does not have an address or contact details. She is also keeping in touch with Pia via Facebook. For Pia herself, finding the bottle on Lisshell ya was something of a prophecy. She explained: "The day I found the bottle we cleaned two small exposed islands, Lisshell ya and Storhell ya, although we didn't finish Storhell ya. "I found the message between some rocks on Lisshell ya. I had already noticed before I picking it up, that the bottle wasn't broken or full of water like so many other bottles I had found that day. "It looked a bit different, probably because of the paper inside. When I picked it up and saw the folded paper with the little text 'To the finder' inside, I knew this one would be special. "It's kind of funny, though, because I said at the start of the clean up something like 'If we don't find a message in a bottle on this island, then I don't know where else we would'. I said that because in just the first few minutes we had been finding almost only bottles and some fishing gear. "I read the message during our lunch break with my crewmembers. I wasn't too surprised that it had come all the way from Scotland because I have already found some stuff from Scotland before, but I felt really happy about the little message, especially because the address was still readable. I was just curious when it had been written. Writing a reply was never in doubt for Pia. She continued: "I thought Alaina would be really happy to know that her bottle had been found. She wrote in her note that she wanted to know who found it and where exactly it was found. "I wanted to give her this information and make her day special, like she made my day special. Also I just like the idea of people randomly getting in touch this way. And maybe I was hoping for a pen pal across borders, because I enjoy the old ways of communicating like postcards and letters. "Everyone is happy if there is something unexpectedly nice in the mail, while getting something digital via WhatsApp is less special and it can stress you out. When Alaina told me how old the message was, I almost freaked out. "The idea that this bottle had been out there, either in the ocean or lying on the island, for over 30 years is just really crazy! It looked like it had been thrown in the sea something between some months and five years ago. "The first thing I said after reading Alaina's replay was something like 'Wow, what were the chances that she still lives in that house?!', but after she sent me some pictures from the coastline literally right in front of her home, I could totally understand why she is still living there. It's just beautiful." Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Pia has been with the Norwegian In the Same Boat project since April this year and will remain with them until the end of July. Having recently finished her bachelor's degree she wanted to travel around Europe and improve her English. A love of the rugged Scandinavian landscape and a drive to do something to help the planet drew her to the project, which aims to fight marine pollution - especially plastic - along the Norwegian coastline. Pia added: "The main method In the Same Boat uses to fight marine litter, besides raising awareness, is beach cleaning, but 'beach' in Norway isn't really the right word. "Norway's coastline is mostly rocky, wild and remote, not a sandy beach. So we hike, climb and sometimes even crawl over and under rocks to collect the plastic before it becomes microplastic. "Then we carry all the heavy bags of trash to the next spot, where the workboat can come and pick it up. The organisation is made up of employed skippers and volunteers. We all live together on sailboats, which allows us to move directly into the polluted areas. That saves time, emissions and costs. "Lisshell ya, the tiny island where I found the message in a bottle - is so tiny that you can probably walk around in just five minutes. we picked and removed 1020kg of marine litter. Even though the island probably hadn't been cleaned before, this amount of trash is just insane."
