内容摘要："I asked if he was gay or straight - he said he was just doing it for the money," Mr Smith said.

"I asked if he was gay or straight - he said he was just doing it for the money," Mr Smith said.

Mr Batten did a dance audition, a tap dance routine, a singing audition, a second dance round, a pre-final where he did the material again around eight times, and then the final."There were nine or 10 of us left by that stage, and at that point we didn't know how many people they were looking for," he added.

"Half an hour after the final my agent called and said I got the job."Before Mary Poppins, Mr Batten had only been on the Hippodrome stage as a child.He appeared in the ensemble cast for Oliver, and Beauty and the Beast.

After leaving sixth form, he won a scholarship at the Urdang Academy in London.Since then, he has been on stage for the international tour of Cats, Spongebob Squarepants The Musical, Cabaret and Elf The Musical in the West End last year.

But he said his return to Bristol has been especially emotional.

"My first tap teacher came to watch me earlier this week," he said.A 99-year-old Swindon woman who joined the RAF at just 13 after changing her birth certificate to falsely claim she was 16 has

with the Swindon Advertiser.have uncovered some great remains from Bristol's industrial past, including from James Winchester's famous 1830s pipe-making factory – complete with clay pipes stamped "J.W." and evidence of a city gin distillery.

for a "very important chair" which has been taken from the Chapel at Milton Road Cemetery.Salisbury Cathedral's famous spire is being