As the shortlist of cities in the operating to host the 2023 Eurovision track contest is introduced at present, campaigners are calling referred to as for subsequent yr’s occasion to be a ‘Welcomers Eurovision’, with precedence tickets allotted to Ukrainian refugees in the UK and the host households who’re offering them a place to remain underneath the fashionable ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme.
As revealed at present on BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show, certainly one of Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield shall be the host metropolis for the Eurovision Song Contest subsequent spring. The world music contest shall be held in the UK after organisers the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) dominated that it could possibly be safely held in Ukraine, who gained the 2022 Eurovision. The shortlist of potential host cities shall be introduced on the BBC 2 Breakfast Show at present (12 August).
This can be the excellent second to have a good time the heat welcome that folks in Britain and lots of different European nations have supplied to these fleeing the battle in Ukraine. Warm-up occasions, qualifying rounds and ‘fan zone’ occasions on the evening might happen in areas round the nation and take a related strategy, with Ukrainians and their hosts invited to participate.
Latest authorities figures present that 107,900 refugees have arrived in the UK underneath the Ukraine Scheme – the largest variety of refugees to return to the UK from one nation at one time since the First World War. More than 100,000 individuals in Britain supplied…
