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From Our Home Correspondent23/06/2019From Our Home Correspondent 23/06/2019

The policy no politician will tackle, the Welsh and singing and Southend's image makeover

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“You have to make a song your own – let it tell your story not someone else’s.”

Mingjie Lei holds the Song Prize trophy he won at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019.

  • “My sister decided there was nowhere she’d rather get married.”
  • “They wanted to take away the night care. She wouldn’t have been safe.”
  • “I love hearing the sound of larks – a pity I don’t know the Vaughan Williams piece!”
  • “You have to make a song your own – let it tell your story not someone else’s.”
  • “When we were learning how to serve ice cream, we were allowed to eat the mistakes.”

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