GIRL group Bliss brought a smile to the faces youngsters in Burnley General Hospital during a visit to the children's wards.

The teenage Padiham popsters visited the bedside of eight-year-old Louisa Hill, of Colne, and presented her with a signed copy of their album One Sweet High before meeting other young fans in the day room of Deerplay ward.

Earlier the girls, Marie Atkinson, Abigail Jackson and Laura Heyworth, had an hour-long interview on hospital radio with 16-year-old presenter Gary Dowson.

Gary, of Hayfields, Salterforth, who is taking media studies at Craven College, Skipton, talked to the group about how they formed and their success so far, as well as playing tracks from their album.

Bliss first arrived on the East Lancashire music scene last summer when they played the Bands In The Park festival in Burnley.

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