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NAME: FRA MACARTHUR 070205N TAPE: EF05/0122 IN_TIME: 11:20:19:05 DURATION: 00:01:08:01 SOURCES: SKY DATELINE: Falmouth, 7 Feb 2005 RESTRICTIONS: No Access UK/CNNi/Ireland SHOTLIST 1. Members of Team Ellen and supporters of British sailor Ellen MacArthur open bottles of champagne when new world record is confirmed 2. People applauding 3. Man pours champagne over Mark Turner of Team Ellen 4. Cutaway of man clapping 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Turner, Team Ellen: "It's been an amazing voyage. She's done an awesome job." Question: "How do you feel now, mate?" Answer: "Huge relief, massive relief. It was right down to the line. You just never know what can happen, it was pretty tense so very, very happy, fantastic." 6. Members of Team Ellen writing down record time 7. Close-up of paper showing record time, AUDIO of man reading out record 8. Wide shot of MacArthur supporters STORYLINE British sailor Ellen MacArthur broke a solo round-the-world sailing record on Monday with a time of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds, her control team said. The 28-year-old MacArthur completed the 26-thousand mile (42-thousand kilometre) circumnavigation at 10:29 p.m. (2229 GMT) by crossing an imaginary finish line between Ushant, France, and the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall on the south coast of England. MacArthur has battled stormy seas, gale-force winds, mechanical problems, a broken sail, burns, bruises and extreme exhaustion - even a close encounter with a whale. Her 75-foot (22.9-metre) trimaran B&Q (sponsor's name) broke the record set by Frenchman Francis Joyon, who set the mark of 72 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 22 seconds, in February 2004. MacArthur is expected to come ashore in the port town of Falmouth in Cornwall later. She told supporters waiting there that she was physically and mentally exhausted. MacArthur's journey began on November 28. Since then, she's slept an average of 30 minutes at a time and four hours in any one day.