A SIX-year-old girl’s message in a bottle has washed up in England after drifting in the Atlantic for 21 years.

       Council worker Crispin Benton found the corked green glass container while out on a walk.

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       A little girl's bottled message was found in Falmouth, Cornwall, by Crispin Benton after drifting in the Atlantic for 21 years 2

       The note, signed by six-year-old Anna, read 'Please don’t pollute' as it was sent from the Bahamas in June 2001

       The note inside turned out to be from a little girl who signed her name as Anna and said she was on holiday in the Bahamas in June 2001.

       The youngster included her address in Canada and asked anyone who found the message to write back.

       And despite throwing the bottle into the ocean, she included the words: “Please don’t pollute.

       "Thank you.”

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       Her message travelled at least 4,200 miles to a beach in Falmouth, Cornwall, where Crispin, 43, of Penryn, found it.

       He said: “I picked it up, then I thought ‘Oh my goodness, there’s a message in there’ and got a bit excited.

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       "The bottle was corked. I had to really push to get it out.”

       Crispin has researched the address — 994 Bergar, Laval, Quebec — but the area is now an industrial estate.

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       He is hoping social media can alert the girl — now around 27 — that her note was found.

       He said: “To think someone wrote that 20-odd years ago. What’s she doing now?”