A music chief in Liverpool has written about why the city would be the 'perfect' host city for next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
The BBC is in talks with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to potentially host next year's contest in the UK after it was decided that it would not be safe to hold the event in Ukraine because of Russia's ongoing invasion of the country. Ukraine rap-folk band Kalush Orchestra scored an emotional victory in this year's contest in Turin, Italy, with UK entrant Sam Ryder coming in second place, having topped the jury vote. It was the UK's best result since 1998.
The winning country is usually asked to host the following year's event, but the EBU said today it had carried out a study with Ukrainian state broadcaster UA:PBC and external specialists, amid the conflict, confirming that the "security and operational guarantees" required to host the event cannot be fulfilled in the war-torn country.
