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GV MP finishing course with crowd, to Mrs. Topham shaking hands (SOUND UP AT 7 FEET)
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2.
GV Crowd around
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3.
CU MP speaking (SOUND)
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CRAWSHAW: "Well, I'm beginning to feel a bit tired - LAUGHTER - No this morning earlier on I felt better than I felt many a day when I have not done this. In fact we did four and a half hours marching non-stop in order to knock this record up twenty-five miles. But I think it's beginning to come on now."



INTERVIEWER: "It's a fantastic record, do you think anyone's going to beat it?"



CRAWSHAW: "I think records are there to be beaten...I'll be only too happy when somebody else does."




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This film carries natural sound of the end of the walk, followed by an interview with Mr. Crawshaw.

Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved

Background: A British Member of Parliament today (April 24) set up a new, world non-stop walking record, smashing the previous record of 230 miles (371 Kms) by 25 miles (40 Kms).

Mr. Dick Crawshaw, who is 54, completed 156 laps or a 1.6 mile (2.57 Kms) motor-racing circuit near Liverpool, in 76 hours, 21 minutes. Apart from bleeding toes and a slight limp, the Labour MP looked fit afterwards.

His walk was sponsored by other Members of Parliament, and was expected to raise about three-thousand-pounds for a children's charity.

He also achieved a personal ambition of beating the 250-mile (420 Kms) barrier, believed by many to be a men's walking limit.