A theatre-lover was "astonished" to find a 119-year-old message in a bottle during a special behind-the-scenes tour of Edinburgh's King's Theatre. Mike Hume was on scaffolding 40ft (12m) above the ...

He was born in Aberlour in Banffshire and later married Jane Taylor Beck, with whom he had seven children. The letter found inside bottle was headlined 'Contractors: W S Cruickshank & Son', and ...