Riddle of mystery postcard solved

A postcard which took more than one hundred years to travel from Australia to Scotland is on the move again -- back to Australia.

The post office in the Scottish city of Aberdeen had been unable to trace the person on the address.

But the granddaughter of the man who wrote the postcard, Colin Wardrop, contacted the post office to say it had been sent to her spinster aunt.

The card will now go back to Mr Wardrop's granddaughter in Australia.

The post office remains none the wiser about why the card took one-hundred-and-twelve years to travel about nineteen thousand kilometres twelve thousand miles.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service