Loom band record in memory of Abingdon's Skye Hall

After Skye (pictured in a cut-out behind) died, his brother Jesse took on the mission in his memory

The family of a boy whose "dream" was to "loom to the moon" have set a world record in his memory.

Five-year-old Skye Hall, from Oxfordshire, died last September just a year after he was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour.

During his treatment he undertook a challenge to create the world's longest loom band bracelet.

The Guinness World Records confirmed the 12,529.4m (41,106 ft) loom band bracelet is the longest in the world.

Skye began making loom bands during his hospital stays and came up with the idea to try to make the world's longest one.

The Hall family found out they had set a new world record live on ITV's Good Morning Britain.

Mr Hall said: "Skye's dream was to loom to the moon.

"It's pretty amazing. I suspect this is just part of it as we have taken just over 30,000 metres of loom bands."

The 12,529m bracelet is the equivalent to almost one-and-a-half times the height of Mt Everest and more than 40 of Western Europe's tallest building, The Shard.

The Guinness World Records has confirmed the 12,529 loom band bracelet is the longest in the world

The original challenge was called "Loom to the Moon", and Skye made the bands during his hospital stays with the help of mum Sally, dad Andrew and brother Jesse to raise money for brain tumour research.

But when he became paralysed from the shoulders down, after undergoing radical surgery, Skye and his family, from Abingdon, enlisted the help of people across Oxfordshire, and the world, who sent him their loom band creations.

After he died, Skye's younger brother Jesse took on the mission in his memory.

Skye and his parents also set up a charity called Blue Skye Thinking to support the research and treatment of childhood brain tumours. So far they have raised more than £100,000.