Bell-ringers in UK break 50-year-old world record

A bell-ringing world record that has stood for 50 years has been broken by bell-ringers at a church in the British county of Somerset.
The record peal attempt to ring 21,216 changes on the 12 bells of South Petherton Church, near Yeovil, took 14 hours 26 minutes to complete.
It beats the previous record of 16,368 set at Birmingham Cathedral in 1965.
Organiser David Purnell, said despite "each ringer having to ring their own bell for the whole time with no break" they had done an "excellent job".
The record is for the longest period ringing for 12 church tower bells in a method known as Cambridge Surprise Maximus.

Last October, the team's first record bid had to be called off after four hours when two ringers suffered "mental fatigue" and made mistakes.

"At the point they'd failed at last year, there was a bit of hesitation and a bit of unevenness but once they got over that it was fine," Purnell was quoted as saying by the BBC.
Ringing from 7:00 am on Saturday through to around 21:30 pm, Purnell said the church had provided a video link of the ringers in the tower.
"The tenor ringer, who's pulling a one-and-a-half-tonne bell, had a gadget a bit like a hospital drip with a tube which he would put in his mouth and ring the bell one-handed," said Purnell.

"But they were all on the end of a rope for 14 hours so luckily nobody needed to have a wee," he added.