07 December 2008 | Longest marathon playing indoor field hockey | 26/38 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Havering Hockey Club |
06 December 2008 | Largest simultaneous performance of one show (multiple location) | 66 total number | Stagecoach Theatre Arts |
December 2008 | Longest postal delay | | Royal Mail |
01 December 2008 | Fastest-selling debut by a classical act in the UK | 69087 unit(s) sold | Thomas Paul, The Priests |
29 November 2008 | Largest gathering of Daleks | 95 people | National Space Centre |
11 November 2008 | First use of spyware to cheat immigration | first | Unknown |
05 November 2008 | First commercially availaible bionic hand | first | i-limb hand |
November 2008 | Longest distance rowed on a Concept II indoor rower in 24 hours by a pair (male) | | Simon Johns, Sam de Kooker |
29 October 2008 | Fastest internal combustion engine powered remote-controlled model car (RC) | 137.86 kilometre(s) per hour | Mark Corden |
25 October 2008 | Most targets shot in 8 hours - 30 m range | 4059 total number | Christopher Large |
22 October 2008 | Largest ground vibration caused by car sound systems | | Fast Car Magazine www.talkaudio.co.uk |
11 October 2008 | Largest audience for an audio described theatrical performance | | VocalEyes |
05 October 2008 | Most dance styles performed to one music track | 48 total number | One Rhythm Dance Festival |
03 October 2008 | Most alarm clocks smashed using feet in one minute | 88 total number | Jay Wheddon |
01 October 2008 | Most tortelloni made in 3 minutes | | Francesco Boggian |
01 October 2008 | Largest eccles cake | | Martins Foods |
30 September 2008 | Youngest person to play in English league football (soccer) | | Reuben Noble-Lazarus |
26 September 2008 | Most moving image cameras used in a composite film shot | | Toshiba |
23 September 2008 | Fastest time to spell the British sign language Alphabet | 4.7 second(s) | Thomas McWhinney |
16 September 2008 | First jet wing flight across the English Channel | first | Yves Rossy |
16 September 2008 | Most money made at auction by a single artist | 200800000 US dollar(s) | Damien Hirst |
07 September 2008 | Largest town cry | 280 people | Dorchester Town Promotion Campaign |
27 August 2008 | Fastest time to pop 100 balloons by a team of two | 12.25 second(s) | William Ferrand and David Ashford |
27 August 2008 | Most people playing Monopoly (multiple venues) | 2918/21 people | Hasbro |
24 August 2008 | Longest marathon playing camogie | 24/7 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Croydon Camogie Club |
09 August 2008 | Youngest footballer to play in all four divisions of the English Football League | | Jack Hobbs |
07 August 2008 | Fastest time to lay 12m²of carpet | 6/20.18 minute(s):second(s) | Stephen Dineley |
30 July 2008 | Largest scotch egg | | Clarence Court |
28 July 2008 | Fastest journey from Land's End to John-O'-Groats on foot (female) | 12/15/46 day(s):hour(s):minute(s) | Marina Anderson |
27 July 2008 | Most hop the fence yo-yo tricks in one minute | 144 total number | Arron Sparks |
12 July 2008 | Largest parade of Mitsubishi cars | 273 total number | Mitsubishi Lancer Register |
11 July 2008 | Largest dance class (multi-venue) | 26797 people | Liverpool Sportslinx |
11 July 2008 | Fastest motorcycle handlebar wheelie | 173.81 kilometre(s) per hour | Enda Wright |
01 July 2008 | Largest margin of victory by runs in a One-Day International (male) | | New Zealand |
27 June 2008 | Largest display of LEGO®Star Wars clonetroopers | | LEGO UK |
22 June 2008 | Youngest rider to win a motorcycling Grand Prix | | Scott Redding |
15 June 2008 | Longest marathon playing korfball | 30/2 day(s):hour(s):minute(s) | Kingfisher Korfball Club |
06 June 2008 | Fastest scale speed slot car | 983.88 mile(s) per hour | Dallas Campbell |
25 May 2008 | First bowler to take 10 wickets in a limited overs international | 2008/5/25 first | Mehboob Alam |
21 May 2008 | Largest wine tasting event (multiple venues) | | JD Wetherspoon |
15 May 2008 | Fastest time to arrange a deck of playing cards | 36.16 second(s) | Zdenek Bradac |
13 May 2008 | Most push ups (using back of hands, carrying 40 lb pack) in one hour | 663 total number | Paddy Doyle |
01 May 2008 | First western actress to perform kung fu on television | first | Dame Diane Rigg |
19 April 2008 | Largest collection of mouse mats | 3673 total number | Daniel Evans |
14 April 2008 | Most legs waxed in an hour | 40 pair(s) | Susanne Baird |
13 April 2008 | Fastest group of Maasai Warriors to complete a marathon | 5/24/47 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Maasai Warriors |
06 April 2008 | Fastest climb three-legged up the Canary Wharf tower | 14/34.69 minute(s):second(s) | Heather Derbyshire, Karen Fingerhut |
02 April 2008 | Largest box of chocolates | | Thorntons |
31 March 2008 | Farthest distance to pull a single decker bus with the ears | 6.1 metre(s) | Manjit Singh |
21 March 2008 | Fastest time to score a try in an English Premiership rugby union match | | Lee Blackett |
06 March 2008 | Fastest time to complete a skydive on six continents | 8/7/30 day(s):hour(s):minute(s) | Martin Downs |
29 February 2008 | Longest curry delivery | 18830 kilometre(s) | James Crisp, Jon wise |
20 February 2008 | Oldest person to captain a Champions League football (soccer) team | | Paolo Maldini |
20 February 2008 | Longest peanut throw | 37.92 metre(s) | Colin Jackson |
February 2008 | Most popular television show on TV.com | | House |
27 January 2008 | Greatest win on In-house bingo | 1101686 UK pound(s) sterling | Christine Bradfield |
18 January 2008 | Most temples consecrated by one person | | Pramukh Swami Maharaj |
10 January 2008 | Narrowest J-Turn | 18 centimetre(s) | Terry Grant |
2008 | First Olympic Games to pass the 100-, 200- and 300-event barriers | first | London Olympics, 1908, Moscow Olympics, 1980, Sydney Olympics, 2000 |
2008 | Longest running women's magazine (publication) | 1869 year(s):day(s) | The People’s Friend |
2008 | Longest binary number memorised in 5 minutes | | Ben Pridmore |
2008 | First habitable sand hotel | first | Mark Anderson |
2008 | Oldest international football ground | | Racecourse Ground |
2008 | Strongest carbon nanotube | 9000000000 pascal(s) | University of Cambridge |