And, in the end, the 29-year-old left hander's crease occupation lasted for 10 hours and 35 minutes, as he recorded the longest innings of the summer.

BBC: Lancashire keep their nerve to see off Hampshire

Meanwhile in Somerset, the Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat crews dealt with the longest shout of the summer - nearly 18 hours - when they joined the search for four-year-old Dylan Cecil, who drowned last month after slipping from a jetty while on a family holiday.

BBC: RNLI blames 'tricky' weather for SW lifeboat launch rise

During the summer, Mackinac hosts the world's longest freshwater yacht race and an annual fudge festival.

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Nintendo Power is one of the longest-running game magazines in the country, having been published continuously since the summer of 1988, when it started as a bi-monthly outgrowth of the previous Nintendo Fun Club newsletter.

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