INTERNATIONAL singing star Russell Watson launches a new single for charity today.

The Salford-born tenor will raise funds for seven-year-old Kirsty Howard's bid to help collect £5m for the Francis House Children's Hospice in Manchester.

Kirsty was born with a back-to-front heart and is a patient at the Hospice for terminally ill children.

Russell Watson is due to perform his single "Nothing Sacred" at Harrods in London later today.