Message in bottle turns up after 30 years

A message in a bottle thrown into the sea off the Kent coast 30 years ago by a five-year-old British boy has been found in the Netherlands.
The message was written by Carl Marchant and thrown from Admiralty Pier in Dover while he was fishing with his father in August 1987.
The bottle was found in sand dunes nearly 643 km away on the island of Terschelling last weekend, the BBC reported today.
Marchant, who was tracked down by a Dutch radio presenter via BBC Radio Kent and Facebook, said he was shocked.
"I remember throwing bottles into the water but I couldn't remember when until I actually saw the letter," he said.

"We used to do it every time we went fishing in a different place."

Frank van Dijk, a radio presenter with Omroep Gelderland in Arnhem, said the bottle was discovered during a beach clean and had probably been buried for many years.
In his message Marchant said he had come to Dover "with my mummy and daddy to do some fishing".
Marchant, who now lives in Faversham, said: "I've given up throwing letters into the sea, but I've got a son and I might get him to do it now.