内容摘要：Earlier this month, the Met detailed a list of savings it would need to make in order to protect frontline services such as neighbourhood policing and public protection teams, which tackle sex offences and domestic abuse.

Earlier this month, the Met detailed a list of savings it would need to make in order to protect frontline services such as neighbourhood policing and public protection teams, which tackle sex offences and domestic abuse.

Mr Francis, who is the lead singer of Frankie and the Heartstrings, said travelling with the band had shown him Sunderland already had the reputation of a music city across the world."I know there is a perception of Sunderland as a music city from outside the UK in particular, but we need the people in this city, whose lives revolve around music, to be proud of that," he said.

Mr Francis added he was "expecting some cynicism"."I tell people about it, I tell my parents, friends about it, and they say 'oh yeah, whatever', but then I remind them that some of the best times they've had in Sunderland is because of music," he said.Sunderland has produced a number of successful bands along with the Heartstrings, including Leatherface and The Futureheads.

It has also hosted world-famous acts such as Beyoncé, Pink and Bruce Springsteen.Getting a music city status is expected to attract more international artists to work and perform on Wearside, as well as help local acts land more gigs in cities which are part of the network.

Members currently include Aarhus, Bergen, Berlin, Gothenburg, Groningen, Hamburg, Manchester, Reykjavik, Sydney, and Valencia.

Graeme Hopper, who has been organising experimental music festival Boundaries in the city for the past three years, said getting a music status would be a "win-win".Mr. Delahun, who is also a poet, said: "For neurodivergent individuals, the world is not just a series of fixed, quantifiable events, but a dynamic dance of patterns, music, and colour.

"When safe and valued, these minds have the unique capacity to see, feel, and express the more subtle, intricate dimensions of existence."Hero, who is in year five at Blean Primary School, said she now has the confidence "to write or draw whatever" comes into her mind.

Her classmate, Tess, has worked at home with her family on a painting of a tree "that shows that all of your thoughts and worries can fall away like leaves."Other schools involved in the project include Bridge, Challock, St Peter's Methodistt, Lady Joanna Thornhill primary and Whitstable Junior.