London, Aug 22 : A Scottish man, who threw a message in the bottle into the sea when he was 11 years old, has reunited with it – 23 years later.

Donald Wylie, now aged 33, had thrown the bottle into the sea off Orkney in 1985 with a message asking its finder to pass it onto a boy of similar age.

The bottle was discovered by a team of volunteers cleaning up a beach at West Sands in St Andrews.

The group, which included students and staff from the University of St Andrews, were startled to find the message inside, and launched a search for the sender, which took them to Wylie still living in Orkney and working as a house builder.

Edinburgh, July 20 : Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a massive stone tower which could have been the biggest Iron Age building on Orkney, an archipelago in northern Scotland.

According to a report in the Scotsman, the structure, which has been uncovered at the Cairns, South Ronaldsay, was created around 2,500 years ago and would have been about 70ft wide.

The three-week dig has revealed a complex of buildings, with the remains of the stone tower, or broch, at the centre.

On the outside, the tower would have been around 70 feet wide – bigger than Orkney''s best preserved brochs at Gurness in Evie and Midhowe in Rousay. 

Edinburgh, June 18 : A mysterious crop circle that emerged overnight in a barley field in England has baffled scientists, as it depicts the mathematical formula pi.

Edinburgh, June 16 : Four souvenirs from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 have been found at the famous Scottish historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott’s home at Abbotsford in Scotland.

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Edinburgh, May 26 : Beavers are going to be re-introduced in Scotland, 400 years after they were hunted to extinction in Britain.