Melissa Russell wrote a message, put it in a bottle and tossed it into the North Sea. And she thought that would be the last she knew of it.

But two years later a postcard has arrived at her Kexborough home saying the bottle has landed - on a small Norwegian island near the Arctic Circle.

Melissa, 13, and her mum Clare, a health care assistant, of Cooper Road, Kexborough, sent the message while on holiday in Great Yarmouth.