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April 15,
News Round Up 242

HOW about this for kicking a football a long distance....a Daily Mail article says a ball booted out of a ground in Aberdeen, Scotland ended up 1,100 miles away in Norway!

The ball was kicked over a 25ft fence at Banks o' Dee Football Club's riverside ground by an under-19s team player, landed in the River Dee, floated into the North Sea and was then carried all the way across to the Norwegian island of Vanna.

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Norwegian Johnny Mikalsen then found it and informed the club after he was able to make out its name written on the ball.

Banks o' Dee club secretary Tom Ewan said balls are regularly lost in the river but this was the first time they had ever been found.

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