A POOLE charity has successfully tracked down a boy whose sandcastle-making efforts helped get them into the Guinness Book of World Records.

In September Lewis-Manning Hospice appealed to Daily Echo readers to help find the boy photographed jumping for joy at Sandbanks beach as they broke the world record for the most sandcastles built in one hour.

Hugo Reed, 15, from Lightwater, was on holiday when he helped volunteers build 539 sandcastles.

Hugo said: “It’s amazing that I’m in the world record book. My friends on my school bus told me they’d seen the book and thought I looked a bit like the boy in the picture.”

Maria Tidy, the hospice’s fundraising manager, said: “We were ecstatic when we found out we had broken the record and we were even happier when we saw we had been included in the book.”