MEMORY man Creighton Carvello is claiming two world records.

The 57-year-old former psychiatric nurse set out at the weekend to remember a minimum of 12 digits flashed on a monitor for one second and ended up remembering 13.

The Middlesbrough man, who appeared on television's Record Breakers in 1997 for remembering 18 digits displayed on screen for four seconds, went one step better.

He remembered 18 digits displayed for two seconds at the David Game College, Notting Hill, in London.

Mr Carvello said: "I am a very happy man. Next year I will have been 25 years in the memory records and I hope to keep it going.

"I have been in the Guinness Book of Records most years since 1980 and it would be nice to get back in there."

His previous feats included memorising every Middlesbough Football Club result since the Second World War and large chunks of the telephone directory.

He started memorising games as a child, when he committed the detail on collectors' cards to memory.

"I started memorising when I was seven years old, and so it is almost normal to me," said Mr Carvello, who is used to going to the pub and being asked to come up with the score of a past Boro game.