SOUL singer Lurine Cato, a winner of the prestigious Mobo music prize, is leading an NHS choir launched to urge people to donate blood and help raise vital funds to help sickle cell wards.

B Positive Choir was formed last year to raise awareness of the disease and the need for more blood donors.

It is made up of 60 singers from across England who live with sickle cell disease, along with members of their families, helpers and friends.