Susan Boyle announces first tour

Singer Susan Boyle has announced her first tour. She says a seven-night stint in Scotland will be a "thank you" to her home country.

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Britain's Got Talent Cowell reduces hopeful to tears

Alesha Dixon, Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden arrive at a Britain's Got Talent Q&A at the ICA in London. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Simon Cowell reduces a contestant to tears in the first episode of the new series of Britain's Got Talent - by being nice to her.

Beauty therapist Alice Fredenham was so nervous about her audition she did not tell anyone what she was doing.

But the 28-year-old from Hertfordshire impressed Cowell with her version of My Funny Valentine and he made her cry by describing her voice as "liquid gold" and telling her: "You could sing the phonebook".

Other less impressive acts in tonight's show include a mother-and-daughter country music act, an animal impressionist and a string of bad comics.

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