Letter resurfaces after 10 years
Liam gets a reply to message that bobbed off from Banff
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A LETTER cast into the sea 10 years ago by a north-east boy has resurfaced in Norway.
Aberdeen teenager Liam Andrews threw a message in a bottle into the North Sea at Banff in 1998 when he was just seven years old.
However, the student, now 17, was shocked to open his mail at the weekend to discover a letter from a Norwegian woman saying she had found his note.
“I just wrote my name and where I came from on the letter, asking for whoever found it to send it back,” he said.
“I never thought that it would come back and I couldn’t believe it when the woman said she found it in Rebbenes, a small island in Norway.”
Mr Andrews, of Springhill Crescent, Northfield, added: “She wrote me a letter telling me about where she found it and the area it is in – it was really nice.”
Rebbenes is one of a small cluster of islands in the north of Norway – close to its border with Sweden.
