A GROUP of teenage singers will perform for thousands of music lovers on the last night of the Proms.

Tees Valley Youth Choir, runners up in the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition, are to entertain an expected 7,000 spectators converging on Middlesbrough town centre, one of the venues for a chain of simultaneous concerts culminating in a live link to the Last Night of the Proms finale, in London's Royal Albert Hall.

The choir, which will have sung at 29 concerts this year, will perform Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody for the Middlesbrough crowd, conducted by John Forsyth, who set up the choir in 1993.

Middlesbrough's new Centre Square will join Hyde Park, in London, Glasgow Green, Singleton Park, in Swansea and Carrickfergus Castle, Northern Ireland, in staging the simultaneous concerts, on September 8.

Mr Forsyth said: "The choir was delighted to hear that the prestigious BBC Proms in the Park event was coming to the Tees Valley and we were all looking forward to going as spectators - so to have been asked to take part is the icing on the cake.''

So far this year, the choir, which has 79 members, has performed at the Madeleine Church, in Paris, Chartres Cathedral and venues in the Loire Valley, as well as taking part in the National Festival of Music for Youth, in Birmingham, and the Brinkburn Festival, this month.

Music for the Middlesbrough concert will be provided by Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Michal Dworzynski.

Tickets for the Middlesbrough performance cost £10 for adults, £8 for concessions (over-60s, under-18s), under-12s are free when accompanied by an adult and are available from the box office, on 01642-729729 or by visiting the website bbc.co.uk/ proms