Sudan's local relief committees also urgently need money.

And he says he is determined to do so, as a way of repaying what he received as a teenager growing up in the shadow of Manchester’s vibrant music scene in the 1980s."The Smiths… Happy Mondays… these people were all relatively local,” he says.

“They were not from America, and I thought ‘these people are from Manc, I can get a bus to there’ and that had quite a profound effect.”He says that despite being “banned from doing music at GCSE because I was naughty on the xylophone”, that wider musical schooling the region gave him spurred him to success."I won the lottery in the sense of when I got into music as I could go and see these people,” he says.

“It was such a beautiful education.""It is important when you see people from the streets you live in, and it was the same for me watching the Stone Roses back in the day.

“You think ‘oh wow, maybe I could to this’.”

He says passing on that spirit to a new generation of bands is vitally important to him in order to give them the confidence to follow in his footsteps, as he did with his heroes back in the early 1990s.She said while she could not reveal her specialist subject for the semi-final, it would be something "more high brow".

Ms McMenamin is one of 96 contestants to appear in the latest series of Mastermind, which has run for 52 years and been hosted by news presenter Clive Myrie since 2021.Hospital waiting times in Wales have hit record levels again, and risen for the fifth month in a row.

There were some 791,511 patient pathways in June - which is 615,300 actual patients waiting for treatment - another record.Those waiting longest – more than a year and two years for treatment – have also increased.