Hereford choir turns down Britain's Got Talent invite (From Hereford Times)

Hereford choir turns down Britain's Got Talent invite

2:11pm Friday 10th February 2012 in Local News

A Police choir from Hereford has turned down the chance to appear on one of Britain’s most popular TV shows.

Hereford Police Male Choir said it was too busy to audition on the hit ITV series Britain’s Got Talent having been approached by show producers.

The choir cited a busy schedule of concerts and rehearsing new music as the reason it couldn’t perform in the early rounds.

The 70-strong group shot to fame on BBC show Last Choir Standing.

Choir spokesman George Thomas said: “The producers invited the choir to compete at auditions in either Birmingham or Cardiff and it would have been a lot of fun, especially if we had won through to the televised shows, but we just could not fit it into the schedule.”

But fans will still be able to catch the 70-strong choir on TV later this month when they appear on BBC show Flog It!

County followers can also watch them perform at Hereford Shirehall on February 25 at 7.30pm in a concert to raise funds for Bartestree-based St Michael’s Hospice.