Selfies world record is set on the Wrekin inspired by tragic Georgia
Millions of people around the world have taken pictures of themselves as part of the selfie craze.
But a Telford group now holds the world record for the most number of selfies take in one place - and that place is at the top of the Wrekin.
The Hands Around The Wrekin (HATW) group claimed the record yesterday when about 700 people gathered at the top of the 1,335 ft hill and snapped a shot of themselves with phones and cameras.
The record attempt for taking the most number of selfies has never been done before and was put on in conjunction with The Georgia Williams Trust.
One of the wishes on the tragic Wellington teenager's bucket list was to break a world record.
And the money raised at the event, which is still being collected and counted, will be split between The Georgia Williams Trust, the Lingen Davies Cancer fund, Stay, Midlands Air Ambulance and The Clifton in Wellington.
One of the organisers Marcus Keane said: "It was a fantastic gathering, it was great to see the community coming together and supporting us.
"This was right at the top of the Wrekin but there was also activities such as live bands and facepainting further down which people also enjoyed.
"Everyone had a great time which was the main thing, to get people together to break a world record and we were able to do that.
"It was a great atmosphere and we also had a symbolic holding of hands in dedication to Tony Sayce who organised the first Hands Around The Wrekin in 1981, so that was quite emotional.
"People had a really good time up there and some said they had not been up there since they were children."
The group had also hoped to try and break or set new Guiness World Records for the largest Christmas cracker pulling chain, the most people wearing a paper hat and the largest collection of people doing the hokey cokey around the Wrekin – but some of those would have required about 8,000 people to turn out.
Mr Keane, however, said more events of a similar nature would be planned.
He added: "We are going to do some more things like this, we are talking about what they will be at the moment so we do not yet know but we are discussing it."
