Midlands world record breakers

The 2013 Guinness World Record has been released and there are quite a few entries from the Midlands including most Toe Wrestling World Championships won, largest tongue and quickest escape of a straitjacket.

The Guinness World Records, the global authority on record breaking achievements, first published the best-selling book in 1955 and has sold more than 120 million copies.

This year has increased the boundaries of record breaking, presenting a wide spectrum of records from all over the globe.

• Largest garden spade - Worcestershire

• Most microlights flying simultaneously - Telford

• Heaviest onion & heaviest potato - Two individual records - Nottinghamshire

• Oldest active boxer - Nottinghamshire

• Fastest escape from a straitjacket - Leicestershire

• Most gravy wrestling championship wins - Leicestershire

• Largest trousers - Leicestershire

• Heaviest weight lifted with an eye socket - Leicestershire

• Fastest marathon dressed as a fairy - Leicestershire

• Youngest person to row the Indian Ocean solo (female) - Leicestershire

• First female to row the Indian Ocean solo - Leicestershire

• Fastest cycle across Europe (North Cape to Tarifa) - individual - Leicestershire

• Oldest living bearded dragon - Leicestershire

• Oldest locomotive roundhouse - Derbyshire

• Longest rail grind - snowboard - Staffordshire

• Oldest wing walker - West Midlands

• Most push ups in one minute with a 40 lb pack - West Midlands

• Fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform (male) - West Midlands

• Longest tongue - West Midlands

• Largest chocolate bar - Derbyshire

• Highest altitude by taxi - Staffordshire

• Longest journey by taxi - Staffordshire

• Longest journey by taxi - Staffordshire

• Most Toe Wrestling World Championships won - Men - Stoke on Trent

• Oldest newspaper delivery person- female - Shrewsbury