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Osterley based Sky has managed to dance its way into the record books by holding the world's largest game of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.

Despite tough supervision from an official Guinness World Record adjudicator, a huge 1,252 people successfully broke the record attempt as part of the broadcasting giant's SkyFest festival.

Over 200 guests turned up to the fourth annual Jersey Gardens Summer Fayre to enjoy the entertainment.

The Osterley event which is said to get 'bigger and better each year', was organised at the Ridgeway Road gardens by Friends of Jersey Gardens (FoJG), who made the decision to restore the run-down area back in 2003.

The Historic Counties Trust recently embarked on a project to explore what Middlesex means to people. As the Chronicle celebrates its historic roots for its 150th anniversary this month, the Middlesex Federation's Rupert Barnes recounts his own family's relationship with a county with a long history and vanishing traditions.

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I was born in Chiswick, Middlesex, in 1967. Officialdom claims that Middlesex had been abolished by then, but I was born among those same Middlesex towns that had been home to generations of the Barnes family before me.

My grandfather's shop was in Chiswick High Road, his father's in Isleworth. For me these have always been Middlesex towns, whatever local government arrangements go on around them, and even if towns hide under anonymous codes like W4.

Residents of Osterley Avenue joined forces to organise a big street party in honour of the street's 100th birthday on Saturday.

Annie Handford, who has lived in the road for 10 years, said: "It's a very friendly place to live, it's not a typical London street where you don't know your neighbours.

A pupil from an Isleworth drama school has made it into the BBC's new Charles Dickens costume drama.

Drama lessons at Stagecoach, held in Gumley House Convent School in Gumley Gardens, have paid off for Cal Weyland-Oliver.

The five-year-old was selected to play Young Tip in the BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit, which is to be screened this Autumn.

The historic grounds and mansion at Osterley Park are to become stars of the silver screen after being used as a location for Keira Knightly's new film The Duchess.

The house relived its days of Georgian grandeur as the Teddington-born actress and her co-stars converged last Autumn.

A tea-mad Isleworth man is preparing to hit the road in a tiny tuk-tuk to trace the popular beverage's long history.

Mike Hasler, of Worton Road, has just set off on an incredible journey that will see him spend almost seven months travelling 15,000km across eighteen countries in three-wheeled auto-rickshaws with a top speed of 31mph.