Ulverston is now the proud holder of a world record thanks to a few thousand plates of shaving foam.

The record for the largest shaving cream pie fight now rests in the proud hands of the South Lakes town.

The record was set at this year's Another Fine Fest, the celebration of Stan Laurel's birthday.

After reviewing aerial footage of the foam flinging at Ford Park, Guinness World Records declared the festival to be the new official record holder

In total, 1,180 people took part in this huge tribute to the home-grown comic.

This smashed the previous record of 869 pie fighters, achieved by the Belfast Community Circus School at the Big Fun Flan Fling in 2015.

One of the organising team, Rachael Weaver, also known as Captain Custard, said: "We did it! I've been dancing about like a loon since we found out and can't stop humming the Record Breakers theme tune."

See footage from the record breaking event earlier this year. Credit: Jonathan Williams.

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The group were determined to break the record in homage to the Laurel and Hardy Film, 'The Battle of the Century' where between 3,000 and 10,000 pies were thrown during the film's climax.

Ms Harvey said: "We wanted to do something special as it was the third year of the festival.

"There was a famous film from 1927 where they had an epic pie fight."

On paper breaking a world record seemed easy, however, Ms Harvey found out it was far harder than she thought.

She said: "It was a nightmare. We've never tried to break a record before. You go online and make an application to Guinness. Then you get sent a guide book."

Jennie Dennett who was also part of the team who made the pie fight a reality said that the wait to hear if they had broken the world record was tough.

She said: "We've all been losing sleep over it, there are so many rules to record-standard pie flinging we worried we'd slipped up by failing to comply with some detail.

"The pies for example all had to be 16.5cm with the foam completely covering the plate and Guinness had to be satisifed that we'd counted everyone properly.

"In the end there was just one disqualification by our stewards - a baby who was too little to throw a pie - when she grows up though she can at least say she was there on the day when Ulverston claimed a World Record."

Ceri Hutton, another member of the team, added: "Ulverston in the world record books, who'd have though it, eh?"

The record certificate is winging its way to Ulverston and will soon take its pride of place on the walk of the Laurel and Hardy Museum.