A GRADUATE who stood head and shoulders above other candidates for a job with air traffic control was rejected because of his height, an employment tribunal was told yesterday.

However the Guinness Book of records now says the Tallest man - living is Xi Shun (China, b. 1951), measured 7 ft 8.95 in (2 m 36.1 cm)

Recently signed to Liverpool for £7 million, he is worth over £30,000 per centimetre.

A COUPLE who are too tall for their house condemned councillors yesterday for refusing them permission to make it bigger.

Of course, it like big feet. Everything in proportion.

The thesaurus gives synonyms of tall as: alpine, altitudinous, beanstalk, big, elevated, giant, great, high-reaching, lank, lanky, lofty, rangy, sky-high, skyscraping, soaring, stick and towering.

A Daily Telegraph reader unable to fit into a seat on a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Miami has received an out-of-court settlement after suing the airline for failing to provide “adequate seating”.

A common problem for tall people is finding beds long enough?