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Hundreds of mermaids and mermen came ashore at the weekend to break a world record.              STORYLINE:             ...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:\u003cbr/\u003e              The English south coast town of Bexhill-on-sea has been taken over by mermaids.\u003cbr/\u003e              Hundreds of mermaids and mermen came ashore at the weekend to break a world record.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              It's not something you see every day.\u003cbr/\u003e              A beautiful mermaid sunning herself on the sea shore.\u003cbr/\u003e              And these two are delighted to be making a splash. \u003cbr/\u003e              This is the 'Festival of the Sea' in Bexhill, on the south coast of England.\u003cbr/\u003e              The seaside town is attempting to break the World Record for the largest gathering of mermaids on the beach.\u003cbr/\u003e              It currently stands at 300, but the residents of this pretty coastal town are confident they can smash it. \u003cbr/\u003e              The weather is excellent and the turnout is huge as the mermaids wait for the official gathering instructions.\u003cbr/\u003e              The attempt is on a section of the pebble beach in front of the De La Warr Pavilion, a grade one listed building and something of a flagship for the town.\u003cbr/\u003e              Excitement builds as the participants walk onto the beach in waves of 50.\u003cbr/\u003e              And these two aren't shy.\u003cbr/\u003e              Joy Hockney and Suzy Harvey have done this before. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Joy and I met the last time we were mermaids and we were recreating a photograph and I said to Joy 'can I sit next to you?' and she said, ah, well, I hope you don't mind I've got crabs,\" says Harvey.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I've still got crabs!\" adds Hockney.\u003cbr/\u003e              Alan Mead is a merman and is here with his local swimming group the Silver Surfers, and he's proud of his town's newly found knack of breaking world records.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Bexhill recently got the world record for the most number of people doing the Charleston (dance) which was one thousand and seventy six,\" he boasts. \u003cbr/\u003e              And as the beach fills up, this new record attempt is looking very hopeful. \u003cbr/\u003e              In order to fulfil the stipulations of the Guinness Book of Records, the mermaids must number over 300 and be present on the same section of beach for five minutes. \u003cbr/\u003e              The countdown begins and as the five minutes are up, a huge cheers erupts from the gathering. \u003cbr/\u003e              The official number is 325. A new world record. \u003cbr/\u003e              But this festival doesn't end there. There's performance art, angling classes, cookery, and plenty of local wine to keep everyone delighted for the weekend. \u003cbr/\u003e              Carole Green is the chief organiser of the Festival of the Sea. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The most important thing that we're trying to get across to people is to look after their seas, look after their community, take care of their community and all the beautiful seafront that we have,\" she says.\u003cbr/\u003e              And as for the new World Record, Green is delighted for all the mermaids and mermen out there.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I know that it sounds funny but there's a huge, huge family of mermaids out there. No joke, it's a big thing,\" she say.\u003cbr/\u003e              And by the looks of this cheerful bunch, the day has clearly had a fairy-tail ending\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Bexhill-on-sea, UK - 2 September 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Mermaid lying on beach as waves lap her tail\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Two mermaids in the water\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Mermaids swimming\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Mermaid being lapped by waves\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Wide of Bexhill beach\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Union Jack flag\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Pull out of mermaid tail sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Pan of listed building, The De La Warr Pavilion \u003cbr/\u003e              9. Mermaid world record attempt participants walking onto beach \u003cbr/\u003e              10. Participants Suzy Harvey and Joy Hockney saying hello\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (English) Joy Hockney (left) and Suzy Harvey (right), mermaids:\u003cbr/\u003e              Suzy: \"Well we met, actually Joy and I met the last time we were mermaids and we were recreating a photograph and I said to Joy 'can I sit next to you?' and she said, ah, well, I hope you don't mind I've got crabs.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Joy: \"And I've still got crabs!\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Suzy: \"Which is terrible but we're still friends which is lovely. But we're here now today because we're attempting a world record for the biggest number of mermaids on the beach.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              12. More particpants walknig onto beach\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Tilt down of merman Alan Mead\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Mead, merman participant:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Bexhill recently got the world record for the most number of people doing the Charleston (dance) which was one thousand and seventy six. And then we heard about the attempt for a mermaid record. We have a little swimming group, about 30 of us, all around me, and we all decided to do it as a whole, as a group and we got together - and we're called the Silver Surfers.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              15. Pan of Silver Surfers swimming group waving and cheering\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Tilt up of pink mermaid\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Announcer counting down to world record, pan to cheering participants\u003cbr/\u003e              18. UPSOUND: (English) Announcer: \"I can tell you now the count of mermaids and mermen on Bexhill beach this afternoon is 325\", pan to cheering record breaking mermaids and mermen\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Mermaid \u003cbr/\u003e              20. Performance piece with singer in shell\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Acrobatics during performance\u003cbr/\u003e              22. SOUNDBITE (English) Carole Green, organiser:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I got involved in the sea festival because in the first year it was known as the Bexhill Sea Angling Festival and it was supporting sea anglers who wanted to make themselves known and to really show people just how great the sport was. And it has materialised into something quite a lot bigger, although the sea angling is still a part of it and now it has turned into music, food, beverage, and the most important thing that we're trying to get across to people is to look after their seas, look after their community, take care of their community and all the beautiful seafront that we have.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Women dancing to live band\u003cbr/\u003e              24. SOUNDBITE (English) Carole Green, organiser:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It has been terrific because not only have we had a great festival but today we did the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of mermaids on the beach. I know that it sounds funny but there's a huge, huge family of mermaids out there. No joke, it's a big thing. So we had... the Guinness company sorted us out and approved our challenge. We had to do 300 mermaids. We did 325. They were mermaids, mermen, merbabies. We had a wonderful time.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              25. 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