Children at a Bradford school are hoping to knit their way into the record books.

Youngsters at Queensbury School have created a gigantic piece of finger knitting, or chain mail, which is 1,669 metres long - equivalent to 1.037 miles.

And now they have contacted Guinness World Records which is deciding if the monster creation is long enough to go into the record books.

There is currently no record in the category and the group is collecting the evidence it needs to get its claim verified.

A spokesman for Guinness World Records said once the necessary evidence was received it would be checked by a research team to see whether a new record had been set - which would take about eight weeks.

A drive to interest the pupils in traditional games sparked the finger knitting project.

Carmel Redman, a leader at the school's Early Bird Homework Club, brought in skipping ropes, elastics and finger knitting for the pupils to try.

"We started doing this finger knitting and somebody said 'Let's see how long we can make it'," she said.

From then, students started creating pieces at home and bringing them to the school, in Deanstones Lane, to be joined together.

Pupils Graham Carey, Neil Cook, Simon Barrow, all aged 14, and 13-year-old Christ-opher Goldthorpe have been helping put the pieces together.

And Mrs Redman's 79-year-old mother, Joan Barry, has also contributed by producing chains of knitting.

Mrs Redman, who is also a lunchtime supervisor and library assistant, said: "It's just so big - I never thought it would get so large.

"It's been lovely team work for the children and has improved their dexterity."

Mrs Redman said she was thrilled that the finger knitting could make it into the Guinness Book of Records.

"I am amazed and delighted for the children," she said.

Finger knitting, which is also known as French knitting or chain mail, is done by making a slip knot in a piece of yarn, then pulling a new loop through the original one and carrying on to create a chain.

Mrs Redman said she now showed off the chain regularly to pupils and they were all very proud of their achievement.

And the youngsters plan to continue adding to their creation.