A LIVE screening of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final will be held in Rhyl next month.

The final, which will be held at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena on May 13, will be shown at Rhyl Town Hall, with a full day of events planned.

Hosted by “Wicked Wales”, who have also held an international film festival in Rhyl, festivities will start at 11am, before the final gets underway at 8pm.

Prior to the Eurovision final being shown on the town hall’s big screen, there will be a concert featuring musical talent from Wales and Ukraine.

A “Eurochoir” will also be performing, who will be singing in English, Welsh and Ukraine and have begun rehearsing already.

Tickets are free and available now, and more information can be found by emailing: rhiannon52@mail.com, or annasamsonidze18@mail.com.

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Rhiannon Hughes, of Wicked Wales, said: "We are planning a concert during the day, and the Wicked team is working with a team of Ukranian refugees.

"We want to celebrate the cultures of Ukraine and Wales during the day, and we are asking people to contact me if they would like to sing, dance, play an instrument in Ukranian, Welsh or English, or just help.

"We will have more details at the end of the week.

"We are asking people to book tickets for the evening, which are free."  

This will be the first Eurovision Song Contest to be held in the UK, who are hosting the event on behalf of 2022 winners Ukraine, for 25 years.

The semi-finals will take place on May 9 and 11, with 10 countries from each show going through to the final on May 13.

In addition, the UK, Italy, France, Spain and Germany are already guaranteed a spot, along with last year's winners, Ukraine, so 26 countries will compete in total in the final.

Mae Muller will represent the UK with her track “I Wrote A Song”, the country's first female Eurovision entrant for five years.

She was born in 1997 - the year that the UK last won Eurovision.