for one night only, milly forrest swapped coats for the stage and wowed the audience and critics alikei izundu went to meet her. singing. it's the stuff of dreams. milly's normally back here taking coats and bags a couple of nights a week. sometimes she even gets to page turn doing a live concert. but not for the season's closing night. and that's because one of the evening's performers was taken ill. and milly was asked to step in. she says she was shocked by the opportunity. really excited. really scared. really, really nervous. but when i had a good look at the music, and i realised it was doable. i knew i could make sure i learned it in time. that was a bit of a relief. one critic dubbed her "breathtaking", even though at 23, her voice is still not mature enough to go into the profession full—time. a few people who i trust have said look at this girl. she's very young. so we have to take care of her and make sure that we don't do things too quickly. but there is a quality to the voice and her interpretation that came out very much, towards the end of the audition actually. milly's

a lot of the papers got excited by this story of millie forrest, described as a cloakroom girl turnednging sensation. what a patronising way of putting it! singing sensation. what a patronising way of putting mm singing sensation. what a patronising way of putting it! it is a classic august story, and that your dream comes true. you start off handing out the cloakroom tickets and you end up standing in for the top soprano of the night. that appears to be the story. it is a view weeks old, apparently, as well(!) she ended up singing schubert and vaughan williams and purcell. let's hope it plays on for her. any publicist is good publicity. we will be back in under an hour's time. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. up up next, it is the weather. it is very quiet on the weather front out there right now. lots of clear weather. there is a bit of rain on the way. it is just about approaching ireland. through the course of wednesday, some of us will be getting a train. before that happens, a chilly start to

in the daily express a large feature article on milly forrest — a 23—year—old student who stepped intice at a world—famous concert hall in london after a singer had taken ill before a final recital. and guess what? she wowed the crowds. so let's begin. with us is james hughes, the chief market analyst at brokerage football firm, gkfx. good morning. most acea. not the first time, we start with donald trump, said in the news agenda. —— nice to see you. this story all comes about because of his initial failure to denounce the far right groups that pretty much started a lot of these issues. i don't think anybody is naive enough to think that there are not two sides to every story. i am sure there are bad sides to both groups. but this is donald trump being off the car. and many years, he is damaging. —— off the cuff. and he is not as damaging to other people when he is off the cuff, he is damaging to sell. he is a ready come out and said the far right groups and nazi groups had been pushing a lot of this agenda. but to cover the next day and say that there are two sides to every story, w

for one night only, milly forrest stopped taking coats and took to the stage, wowing audience and criticsng it's the stuff of dreams. milly's normally back here taking coats and bags a couple of nights a week. sometimes she even gets to page—turn during a live concert, but not for the season's closing night. and that's because one of the evening's performers was taken ill and milly was asked to step in and she says she was shocked by the opportunity. really excited, really scared, really, really nervous. but when i had a good look at the music and i realised it was doable, i knew that i could make sure i learned it in time. that was a bit of a relief. one critic dubbed her "breathtaking", even though, at 23, her voice is still not mature enough to go into the profession full—time. a few people who i trusted said "have look at this girl." she's very young, so we've got to take care of her and make sure that we don't do things too quickly. but there is a quality to the voice and her interpretation that came out very much towards the end of the audition, actually. milly's heading to the roya

for one night only, milly forrest swapped coats for the stage and wowed the audience and critics alikeking coats and bags a couple of nights a week.

and milly forrest is here with me now. lovely to see you.ht before, so you had 24 hours? i had a bit longer, i had a call on wednesday evening for the saturday evening performance so i had rehearsals on thursday, friday and some on the day. so i had a little bit of time to get to know the music. and the solo that i had been asked to do luckily i had done before. so a massive rally. well just explain, what the piece of music is the lady who was meant to sing it unfortunately for her not very well. tell us what the piece of music is and you are obviously a music is and you are obviously a music graduate already, what happened from thereon in? so it was a concert with 17 soloists. but a lot of what we were doing and it 4—part harmony pieces and everyone had one so each. so a lot of the time we sang as a group which was quite daunting because i was thinking if i put words in the wrong place that will look terrible. and we can see you in this photo with them. 0ver those few days, what were you saying to them and crucially what were they saying to