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Members of Only Men Aloud will be involved in the performance (2019 Picture: Chris Tinsley) A VIRTUAL St David's Day performance - including soloist Sir Bryn Terfel - will be aired today. The Aloud Charity - which aims to engage with youngsters through choral singing and build their confidence - have gathered their mass virtual choir, Everyone Aloud, for the St David's Day show. The charity asked members of the public to submit videos of themselves singing in order to join the virtual choir, and they received more than 100 videos from across the world, including America, Japan, Germany ...

It’s an anniversary I would rather not remember, but 20 years after the 2001 foot-and-mouth (FMD) outbreak it seems it will be hard to forget – and maybe we shouldn’t, because we certainly never want to repeat it. Before the latest lockdown, I was persuaded (eventually) to take part in the BBC Radio Scotland 'Our Story' programme, produced and presented by the talented Mark Stephen. I had taken part in literally hundreds of media interviews, but nothing quite like this one. I thought that after nearly 20 years had passed, I could talk about the 2001 FMD outbreak with a degree of o...

The St David's Day 2021 celebrations that are happening despite the pandemic The experience will be completely different this year but there are still ways to get involved Updated Celebrating St David's Day will be a completely different experience this year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant that many of the usual events in honour of our patron saint won't be taking place. But people can still mark the historic occasion in different ways. Here we round up the celebrations across Wales that will take place despite the pandemic and we will add more as soon as we get details. If you are organi...

Updated: January 21, 2021, 4:53 pm © Unknown Andy Gray as Buttons in Cinderella at HMT in 1996, with Ugly Sisters Richard Pocock and William Elliot. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Andy Gray was a much-loved stalwart of pantos at Aberdeen’s His Majesty’s Theatre throughout the 1990s. Andy, who has died at the age of 61, was hugely popular with Granite City audiences, starring in festive treats ranging from Aladdin in 1...

CHRISTMAS lights are twinkling in the district, but there have been no celebrity guests turning them on this year. So we’ve looked back at some of the stars turning on Bradford’s festive lights over the years. From Biggins to Beefy, celebrities turned out for the big switch-on. It wouldn’t be Christmas without Billy Pearce... and Bradford’s favourite funnyman switched on the lights in 1994, with a little help from Aladdin’s lamp. Singer and actress Dannii Minogue switched on Bradford’s lights in 1991 - back then she was in Australian soap Home and Away, long before she b...