Amateur footballers have been left stunned after a ball which was kicked out of their ground turned up 1,100 miles away in Norway.

The ball was blasted over the 25ft-wide net at Banks O' Dee FC's ground in Aberdeen into the River Dee by a member of the under-19s side.

Players assumed that the ball was gone forever, as so often happens to the balls which are kicked over the fence.

But the ball is believed to have ended up in the North Sea before travelling all the way to the Norwegian island of Vanna.