A world championships in the art of stone skimming has been held in Shropshire.
Thomas Dutch from Aberystwyth in his first time at the event. He skimmed 59m and then he volunteered to help.
He beat previous winner Alex Lewis from Scotland who came second, with Kevin Waltham, from Newcastle, coming third. "The volunteers worked so hard. We had kayakers on the lake who had to shoo the swans away to stop them getting hit by the stones."
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