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Record breaking TV audience for England Women v Cameroon

A record-breaking peak UK TV audience of 6.9m watched England beat Cameroon 3-0 on BBC One on Sunday to reach the Women's World Cup quarter-finals.

The figure is 40.5% of the available audience and breaks the previous best for a women's football game of 6.1m for England's win over Scotland on 9 June.

There was also an additional 640k live programme requests for those watching on BBC iPlayer and online.

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