This is a Sussex baker's bid to smash the record for the world's largest ever hot cross bun.

Paul Pegrum, of Pegrum's bakery in Brookside Avenue, Rustington, created the huge bun to publicise his home town during the Easter break.

After four hours of cooking, the bun surpassed two out of the three existing records.

A weights and measures inspector from Brighton and Hove Council found the bun had smashed the current weight record of 38kg (83lb 13oz), weighing in at 42.8kg (94lb 6oz).

It is also the widest hot cross bun ever made, coming in at 4ft 4in (132.08 cm) with a circumference of 12ft 7in (383.54 cm).

But the bun fell short on height, measuring just over five inches high (5.254 cm). The current record is six-and-three quarter inches.

Mr Pegrum will now write to the Guinness Book of Records and claim his bun is the biggest ever baked.

His sister, Hillary Matthews, said: "We are still going to file for the record and we'll have to see what happens.

"We had to have health and safety here who tried a bit of the bun to make sure it was edible.

"It has been great fun and I think we can still say we have baked the biggest-ever hot cross bun."

The bun was on its way to the Harbour Park amusement park in Littlehampton where it will be displayed throughout the Easter weekend.

The world record attempt was the idea of park owner and former circus manager Gary Smart.

Mr Pegrum, 49, said: "Gary decided Littlehampton needed some publicity and came up with this harebrained idea, and in a moment of weakness I agreed."