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AN artist from Hackney hopes to make it into the record books with a piece of art aiming to be the longest photograph in the world, to be displayed in 2012 at Excel London.

Clare Newton's latest idea involves recruiting 10,000 people to jump in front of the camera to create a final photograph that could measure as much as 10 metres high by 1.5km long.

Chris Tomlinson is Britain's best long-jumper but he knows he will have to be at his absolute peak to be in with a chance of winning a medal at the World Championships later this month.

The Newham & Essex Beagles athlete holds the British record holder at 8.29m and he will have to leap close to that to be in with a shout in Berlin.

Michael Jackson will now be performing 50 shows at The O2 after more dates were added this afternoon.

The King of Pop's London shows, the last he said he would do in the capital, will now see him in residence at the arena between July 8 and February 24 next year - and there could be more to come.