A woman was left shocked after her ‘message in a bottle’ was sent back with an angry letter – telling her to stop littering.

Lorraine Forbes, 58, has long been sending plastic bottles with letters inside them out to sea with hopes of sparking a romantic connection with a stranger.

Her messages have received responses from as far as Holland and France over the years – but she says that they have mostly washed back up on the shores of nearby beaches.

However, Lorraine, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, recently received a “nasty” shock when one of her letters on the back of a John Lydon gig flyer came back with an angry note from a litter picker.

The letter, which came in a box full of rocks and cost her $9 to accept, read: “Please stop throwing rubbish in the sea. It goes to Pevensey Bay or

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