Joan Armatrading News

Veteran singer Dame Vera Lynn has received a lifetime achievement award at the annual Women of the Year lunch.

BRIDLINGTON'S Miriam Bennett will be rubbing shoulders with some of the most significant females in the country at the Women of the Year Lunch.

A group of women from Birmingham have been invited to the national Women of the Year awards lunch.

A group of women from the South West have been invited to the national Women of the Year awards lunch.

Four students from Nottingham have been invited to the national Women Of The Year awards lunch.

MS sufferer Debbie Purdie and the original Calendar Girls are among the Yorkshire women invited to the national Women of the Year awards lunch.

THREE times Grammy-nominated musician Joan Armatrading will be visiting the Assembly Rooms, Derby, on April 7. The British singer/songwriter has stood the test of time, with classic songs like Love And Affection, Willow, Drop The Pilot and Lovers Speak, which span more than three decades of music.

I tend to think of it as the year punk blew up, but there was also disco , and pop music by the likes of Crystal Gayle.