Meet Brenda, the Suffolk town crier who is the world's loudest woman
Brenda Willison, a town crier from Newmarket, shouted 'oyez' at 105.9 decibels to set a Guinness record, and she says a cold held her back.
Some people can silence a room with a look. Brenda Willison does it with a single word.
The town crier from Newmarket, Suffolk, is officially the world's loudest woman. On 9 September, Guinness World Records confirmed that her cry of "oyez" (the traditional call for attention) reached 105.9 decibels, the loudest shout by an individual woman. Guinness compared it to standing right next to a snowblower or a blasting car horn.
Here's the twist: Brenda reckons she could have gone even louder. She had a cold on the day.
Her crying career started by accident. She first became a town crier in Peterborough after her daughter entered her without her knowing. She has since cried at Buckingham Palace for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday.
It has been a busy few months for Britain's criers. At the World Town Crier Tournament in Chester, Christian Ashdown, 57, from Haslemere in Surrey, placed third behind competitors from Australia and Belgium, making him Britain's best.
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