CHART topping singer songwriter David Gray will be a special guest at a charity concert featuring 187 schools.

David, whose album White Ladder, has sold more than one million copies in the UK alone, will perform his smash hits Babylon and Sail Away.

Participating schools will make up the 5,000 strong choir at the world's biggest children's concert on Wednesday November 21, to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.

For details call: 0161 930 8000