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| Boy finds message in a bottle from Canada washed up in Cornwall | Boy finds message in a bottle from Canada washed up in Cornwall |
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| An eight-year-old boy has made a new friend thousands of miles away after finding a message in a bottle washed up on a Cornish beach. | |
| Noah Crooks was helping to clear plastic debris from Storm Eleanor at Stanbury Mouth near Bude with his brother and father earlier this month. | |
| His father later emailed the address on the note and soon received a reply from a 10-year-old girl in Canada. | His father later emailed the address on the note and soon received a reply from a 10-year-old girl in Canada. |
| Noah said "it was really cool" and he planned to stay in touch with the girl. | Noah said "it was really cool" and he planned to stay in touch with the girl. |
| The family live in Morwenstow and went to their local beach to help clear up on Sunday 7 January after large amounts of waste were washed up by the storm. | |
| An email from the girl, Jacquie Chmilar, revealed she had put the bottle in the sea while staying with her grandparents in Newfoundland in Canada six months earlier. | An email from the girl, Jacquie Chmilar, revealed she had put the bottle in the sea while staying with her grandparents in Newfoundland in Canada six months earlier. |
| Noah said: "I was just picking up rubbish when I looked in the bottle and saw the note. I went up and told dad but he didn't think it was real until he saw it." | Noah said: "I was just picking up rubbish when I looked in the bottle and saw the note. I went up and told dad but he didn't think it was real until he saw it." |
| Nick Crooks, the boys' father, said they had been inspired by the BBC TV documentary Blue Planet II, which highlighted the amount of plastic in the ocean. | Nick Crooks, the boys' father, said they had been inspired by the BBC TV documentary Blue Planet II, which highlighted the amount of plastic in the ocean. |
| "Every once in a while something comes along, and it just triggers something inside of you, and we all felt very passionately about it," he said. | "Every once in a while something comes along, and it just triggers something inside of you, and we all felt very passionately about it," he said. |