English Foiled By That Northern Chill

An effort to break the Australian bikini record failed (but no one is really complaining):

HUNDREDS of Englishwomen stripped off their clothes on a chilly British beach in a doomed attempt to break a world record set in Australia last year.

Some 320 women posed in swimwear on Redcar beach, in Cleveland, in a bid to break the record for the most bikini-clad women ever photographed together.

The fundraising event, organised by Middlesbrough Rotary Club, failed to beat the current Guinness World Record, set in September last year on Bondi Beach, Sydney, when 1,010 women posed together in their bikinis.

...Organiser Mike Robson, chairman of fundraising at the Rotary Club, said: "It was electric. The atmosphere was fantastic.

"We didn't manage to break the record - in fact we got nowhere near it - but that isn't a disappointment. We managed to make an awful lot of money for the Great North Air Ambulance."