Blue-ing it all again
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Published Date:
11 May 2008
The music played, and hundreds of people basked in the summer sun as Blue Week got off to a scorching start.
With a week to go before the FA Cup Final, The News launched the start of a seven-day celebration of Pompey, while raising money for the Tom Prince Cancer Trust.
Saturday's Big Blue Picnic was the curtain-raiser for the week-long build-up, and drew hundreds of people to enjoy local bands and performers putting on a show by the sea.
Shep Woolley kicked off proceedings at 1pm and the crowd steadily grew as he was followed by Gilkicker frontman Sam McCarthy, Andy Muscat, The Minkees, before Forever Blue rounded off the fab-blue-lous afternoon with their cup final anthem We're On Our Way.
A raffle offering two pairs of FA Cup Final tickets and coach travel raised more than £1,500 while collectors took buckets around the crowd.
Today there will be more money collected for the charity - which is bidding to raise £1m in memory of Pompey-mad teenager Tom Prince who died of cancer in 2004 aged just 15 - at Bike To Albert Road Road Day in Southsea.
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Last Updated:
12 May 2008 8:36 AM
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