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CALLING all Westlife fans. Missed out on tickets for the sold-out Leeds First Direct Arena concert? Well, the next best thing is coming to Bradford cinemas...

Westlife are broadcasting the Croke Park date of their Twenty Tour to cinemas nationwide in July. The broadcast will see them perform new songs, as well as their hits, including Swear It Again, Flying Without Wings, You Raise Me Up and Unbreakable.

The show will be broadcast to more than 600 cinemas in the UK and Ireland, including the Light Cinema and Cineworld in Bradford.

Westlife are back, with their biggest tour to date, coupled with two new singles, Hello My Love and Better Man going to the top of the iTunes charts.

The Irish boy band sold more than 55 million records worldwide and are the only band to have their first seven singles enter the UK chart at No.1.

They also have the most singles of any artist to debut at No.1 in the UK.

Overall the band have had a total of 14 chart-topping singles, behind only Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

They have had 33 No.1 albums worldwide and, as a live act, have sold five million concert tickets around the world.

Celebrating 20 years since their debut single hit the No.1 spot, the much anticipated Twenty Tour will see Shane, Nicky, Mark and Kian perform together for the first time since 2012.

In a joint statement, the band said: “We have been overwhelmed with the incredible reaction to the tour and we’re so happy that our fans will now have the chance to enjoy the show in cinemas across the world.

"Croke Park has always been a special place for us and we can’t wait to be back there. It’s going to be a phenomenal night!”

* Westlife: The Twenty Tour Live from Croke Park, distributed by CinemaLive, will be broadcast on Saturday, July 6 from 8pm. For tickets visit westlifeincinemas.com