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Up, up and Norway for schoolboy balloon
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A BALLOON released by a schoolboy at a children's fair in
Edinburgh turned up the next day on a mountain in Norway.
Jonathan Adie set off the balloon at the Balerno Children's Gala
Day and less than 24 hours later it was spotted by a Norwegian
toddler out for a walk with his grandfather.
It had travelled 530 miles to a mountainous area 100 miles north
of Bergen at an average speed of about 25 miles an hour.
The seven-year-old Dean Park Primary pupil was with his mother
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