Article: Lloyd Webber waives copyright for charity CD; Music supremo OKs North Wales project.(News)

Byline: DAVID POWELL

A CLASSICAL singer is raising cash for a North Wales hospice with a CD of Christmas carols featuring her family.

Rhyl-born Irene Grant Jones won permission from Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber to use a chart-topping track on the album, which has already raised pounds 4, 000.

The composer's Really Useful Music Company waived its copyright to allow Irene and her son Ben to sing his version of Pie Jesu.

It is one of 18 tracks on the pounds 8. 50 CD called Handle With Care, raising funds for St Kentigern's hospice in St Asaph.

Teacher Irene, 50, first recorded the track with her son Ben, now 24, when he was 13. She ...

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