It means a lot to Alex, as the note was written by his mother who died from cancer when Alex was just a teenager.
A message on a child’s birthday party invitation in a bottle thrown out to sea by a six-year-old boy has found its way back to him.
He’s since shown it to his family including his brother and their ‘emotional’ grandmother Lilian Wetherby, 86. The bottle was picked up by Izzy Winter, 17, and her brother Freddie, 22 when they took a camping holiday in south west Scotland with friends Liam Kelly, 22 and Cat Jones, 19.Alex as a child with mum Valerie, dad Graham and brother Freddie Inside, they found a roughed up bottle containing a note, which read: ‘If found please return to 27 Gilbert Street, Hindley. Thank You. Please address to Alex.’
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