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A British boy who speculatively hurled a message in a bottle into the sea has had a reply back after it floated 4,200 miles to the Caribbean.

Harrison Mizen, eight, from South Shields in Tyne and Wear, inserted a message into an old rum bottle because it ‘reminded him of pirates’ with the help of his civil servant mum Laura.

Extraordinarily, he has had a reply and was astounded after a postcard from St Lucia appeared on his doormat on September 23.

The heartwarming message the pirate-obsessed school boy sent on January 21 was: ‘Hi my name is Harrison I’ve got a little brother called Max.

‘We’re from South Shields in England. I hope this reaches you and I hope you’re

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