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A Suffolk town crier is certified as the world's loudest woman with a 105.9-decibel 'oyez'

Guinness tells how she got the job: her daughter said she could shout "chips" from one café and be heard at another a mile and a half away.

Brenda Willison, a town crier in Newmarket, Suffolk, England, now holds two Guinness World Records titles: loudest town crier (female) and loudest shout by an individual (female), Guinness World Records announced. On Sept. 9 she cried "oyez" at 105.9 dB (C-weighted), which Guinness compares to standing next to a snowblower or a blasting car horn. She said she had a cold and expects she can get louder.

She has been a town crier since 1987, when the Peterborough paper advertised for one. Unknown to her, her daughter wrote in that if Willison shouted "chips" outside one café at the country park where she worked, people could hear it at the other, a mile and a half away. Since then, Guinness says, she has cried at Buckingham Palace for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday and Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, and at the bridge over the River Kwai in 1995.

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Samba the escaped capybara is caught on camera, seven months after leaving an English zoo

A missing-rodent saga with a following: the zoo explains why it is going slowly and keeping her location secret.

Samba, a one-year-old capybara who escaped her temporary enclosure at Marwell Zoo near Winchester, Hampshire, on 17 March, less than a day after arriving, has been filmed for the first time in months, LBC reports. Her sister Tango was recaptured quickly.

Samba was last seen in August. Grainy footage from wildlife cameras, captured on private land earlier this month, gave keepers further evidence of where she is. The zoo, which has also used thermal drones and camera traps, called the recovery "a gradual and carefully managed process" and said frightening her could make her harder to catch. It is keeping her exact location confidential.

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Harry Kane becomes the first Englishman in 25 years to win the Ballon d'Or; Alexia Putellas wins her third

AP's account of the first Ballon d'Or ceremony held in London, with Kane's message to young players about his slow start and Putellas's comeback after an ACL tear.

Harry Kane won the men's Ballon d'Or on Monday, Oct. 26, at the London Palladium, the first Englishman to win it since Michael Owen in 2001, AP reports. Kane, 33, scored 73 goals for club and country last season, led Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga and German Cup double, and scored six times at the World Cup, where England finished third. Kylian Mbappe, Lamine Yamal, Rodri and Lionel Messi followed in the voting.

"My journey wasn't straightforward," Kane said in a message to young players. "I had to fight my way to be the very best."

Spain's Alexia Putellas won the women's award for a record-equaling third time, after winning in 2021 and 2022 and then tearing her ACL. She now plays for London City Lionesses. The ceremony was held in London for the first time to mark 70 years since the first winner, England's Stanley Matthews, in 1956.

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Harry Brook hits the fastest ODI double century, and Sri Lanka still chase down 430

A record-filled one-day match: 847 runs, a record 123 boundaries, and a six off the second-to-last ball.

England's Harry Brook scored 202 against Sri Lanka in a one-day international in Rawalpindi on Thursday, Oct. 22, the first ODI double century by an England batter and, per the report on Yahoo Sports, the fastest in the format, off 114 balls. England made 429-4.

Sri Lanka chose to bat second, recovered from 24-2 and won by two wickets with one ball left, reaching 430-8; Pavan Rathnayake made 130. Needing six from two balls, Janith Liyanage hit a six. It is the second-highest successful chase in ODI history, and the 847-run match aggregate is second only to South Africa and Australia's 872 in 2006. The 123 boundaries were an ODI record.

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