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"We'll tweet again...", says Dame Vera Lynn

5103 days ago
The MirrorForces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn is helping oldies to get to grips with technology by launching a campaign to help them understand the online world. more info

GRANDAD WAS SINGER CHLOE'S INSPIRATION

5133 days ago
The MirrorThe 10-year-old singing sensation who stole the show on last night's Britain's Got Talent was inspired to perform a Dame Vera Lynn song by her grandfather. more info

Chloe's web war-bler

5133 days ago
News of The World10-year-old Chloe Hickinbottom learned old Vera Lynn songs from YouTube. more info

Britain's Got Talent star Chloe,10, too young to sing my wartime song says Dame Vera Lynn

5134 days ago
The MirrorDame Vera Lynn yesterday branded a 10-year-old Britain's Got Talent hopeful "far too young" to perform one of her moving wartime songs. more info

Britain's Got Talent: 10-year-old singer wows TV judges

5135 days ago
The MirrorBritain's Got Talent judges have been bowled over by a 10-year-old star-in-the-making after she captivated them with a Vera Lynn classic. more info

Are women really on top when it comes to the charts?

5170 days ago
Guardian MusicThis week saw the most successful UK charts run ever enjoyed by female artists. But marketing women in pop hasn't changed much from the poster girls of postwar BritainIt's not often you spot a trend started by Vera Lynn. She might be a mistress of th... more info

Vera Lynn Upset Over Dover Sale

5201 days ago
ContactMusicDAME VERA LYNN is urging U.K. officials to rethink plans to sell the Port of Dover to foreign investors, insisting it's a part of British history.A spokesperson for the... more info

And a Nightingale Sang | Theatre review

5202 days ago
Guardian MusicNew Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeCP Taylor's gentle, nostalgic saga of life on the domestic front evokes a world of ­make do and mend, casualties in ­foreign climes and the sound of Dame Vera Lynn, which seems as long ago as ... last Septem... more info

Q&A: Dame Vera Lynn

5253 days ago
Guardian Music'My guiltiest pleasure? At 6pm I like to sit down with a glass of wine and a packet of crisps'Dame Vera Lynn, 92, was born in East Ham, London. She began singing in working men's clubs at seven, and made her first solo record in 1936. Known as the F... more info

Eric Boswell obituary

5265 days ago
Guardian MusicComposer of the Christmas favourite Little Donkey and of several geordie dialect songsThe lilting seasonal song Little Donkey will be heard at numerous school Christmas carol concerts throughout this month. It is often presumed to be a traditional nu... more info

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