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BBC Birmingham achieves world record for face painting
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BBC Children in Need in Birmingham got itself into the record books - breaking the world record for face painting.
A five-strong team of face-painters led by Helen Elvins of Faces Unlimited in
Redditch notched up an astonishing 1,071 faces in four hours yesterday - each of them
verified as different by a Guinness Book of World Records adjudicator -
smashing the previous record by 82.
And Rosey Jones from Telford took the individual world record by painting 113
people in just an hour.
Children bussed in from schools in Kings Heath, Rubery, Handsworth, Castle
Bromwich and Edgbaston all received certificates commemorating their part in
the record which previously stood at 989.
Passers by, workers on lunch
breaks and staff from BBC Birmingham joined in to keep the momentum going.
The rules were strict with each face created by using three colours, one on a
sponge and two on brushes, with every one of them having to be different.
BBC Birmingham Press Office
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