Alaina Beresford Alaina Beresford was 12 years old when her bottle was dropped into the North Sea A Scottish schoolgirl’s message in a bottle has finally received a reply more than 30 years later – after being discovered in Norway. Alaina Beresford, from Portknockie in Moray, sent the message in 1994 when she was 12...
Ken Banks BBC Scotland News Gavin Geddes Jim Runcie is pictured on the right on board Loraley with a crewmate at sea The mystery of a North Sea message in a bottle found on a Swedish island after 47 years has been solved by BBC Scotland News. Friends Ellinor Rosen Eriksson and Asa Nilsson found...
Tom Jackson BBC News, Cambridgeshire Harriet Heywood BBC News, Cambridgeshire Tom Jackson/BBC The oldest discovery at the site so far is a soft drinks bottle, believed to be from the 1890s, with the words Wadsworth’s Cambridge An unopened Victorian soft drink has been discovered by archaeologists ahead of work to turn a shopping centre into...
Dan Martin BBC News, Leicester Alexie Winship Alexie Winship said she would need to use a wheelchair for several months to come A woman says she has been left unable to walk after she was accidentally trampled by players participating in an annual Easter Monday tradition. Alexie Winship said she was among spectators watching the...
Spring has sprung and lambing season is in full swing, so BBC Breakfast decided to visit Penhein Farm in Chepstow to meet some of the new arrivals. When lambs are orphaned or abandoned, the farm tries to match them with adoptive mothers and also steps in to feed them if required. But things didn’t go...
