In pictures: Record number of soap box competitors

More than 8,000 people watched on as a record number of competitors took part in a seaside town's annual soapbox race.

The Hunstanton Soapbox Derby saw 51 teams take to the track on Sunday, more than the event has ever had enter in its history.

The event welcomed a variety of hand-built karts designed to look like a bubble bath, a police van, to a military plane, to race down the town's hilly streets.

Dating back to 1953, the derby was re-introduced by the Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk in 2017.

The course, which challenges racers to overcome a ramp, chicane and tight corners, started on Greevegate, near the High Street, and finished at Beach Terrace Road next to the seafront bandstand.

While the winning time was just under 30 seconds, for some it took just over one minute.

Winners from the adults 16-49 category, King's Lynn and District Round Table 54, said "against all odds", it won the race finishing in 28 seconds.

On social media, it said: "Our soap box may have been held together with hope, duct tape, and the spirit of pure will - but she flew.

"We crossed that finish line in style. And by style we mean by going straight through the hay bale wall at the end.

"Thanks to everyone who came out, cheered, laughed, and witnessed the madness."