Walsall Manor Hospital invites a teenage choir to sing to patients

Teenagers from Kings High in Warwickshire delighted patients on the 'stroke' ward and rehabilitation ward when they sang, unaccompanied, as they moved from bay to bay.

The girls, aged 16, sang music by the Beatles, The Carpenters. Abba as well us some well known classical music.

Afterwards, the girls chatted to the patients, incuding some who had followed them from bay to bay on foot and in wheelchairs.

Several patients, and their visitors,were able to sing along. Others, who were less able to sing, tapped their feet in time to the rhythm.

The patients seem to gain a great deal from the experience. They all seemed to enjoy the music but many appreciated the youngsters simply because they brought a little of the outside world into the hospital and were touched that they had taken the trouble to help them feel more cheerful.