Three of Bradford’s most famous talents have joined other celebrities to help record a charity single against knife crime.

Girls Aloud star Kimberly Walsh and her bandmates are supporting the recording, which featured boxer Junior Witter and former Hollyoaks actor Lee Otway, both from Bradford, and a host of others at the Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield for the recording session yesterday.

The collaboration is aimed at raising money to fight the spate of knife crimes, which includes the stabbing death of Rashid Elahi in broad daylight in West Bowling on July 25.

The recording was done under the working title of UK Flow and was the idea of Stephen Nicholas, an actor who starred in the footballing drama Dream Team.

He wanted to raise awareness about knife crime and its consequences after a number of young people were stabbed to death across the country.

He was the man responsible for organising football matches at Valley Parade to show support for the family of shot PC Sharon Beshenivsky in 2006 and the Save Our City fundraising match when Bradford City were threatened with extinction in 2004.

He said: “We just want to raise awareness. We haven’t got any ulterior motive; our only motive is to stop kids dying. Every single community around the country is having the same problems with knife crime.”

He wrote the track with Lee Otway and yesterday said there had been a great atmosphere in the recording studio.

“It’s fantastic, they know they are all doing it for a great cause,” he said.

“We want to stop people getting killed, young people are dying because of knives.

“We want to raise as much money as possible for knife crime organisations and channel it towards taking children off the streets and into sport or drama, whatever it takes to stop children getting bored and running around with knives.”

With the glamour of Girls Aloud behind the idea, Witter and Otway were joined for the recording session by boxing legend Johnny Nelson, Casualty actors Luke Bailey and Elyes Gabel, DJ and presenter Marvyn Williams, singer Steve Edwards and singing teacher Ali Heath Cook.

Sheffield Central MP Richard Caborn, who is lending his support to the initiative, was also there for the recording of the song, which has not yet been named.

Nicholas said he hopes the record will raise money to set up acting and sporting workshops for children to keep them away from crime.

The group first performed the song at the Music In The Sun event in Sheffield at the beginning of the month and will support the Kaiser Chiefs at the Love Music Hate Racism concert in Rotherham next month.

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