"Looks like it is copied from last year's press release."

I thought the same. Nothing new - the Belinda quotes are obviously old, and even the picture is of the old lineup.

I liked this bit:

"On the train from Newcastle to Carlisle, en route to visit folk singer Rachel Unthank at her cottage near Hadrian's Wall, I ask a fellow passenger if he knows the Unthanks.

I'm told they are a well-known local family, and that there is an Unthank Hall. And there was me thinking it was some rather original stage name..."

Right - so he'd done his research, then...

I find it rather hard to believe that anyone had to travel all the way to Carlisle on a train to construct a piece of press-release puff like this.

I dunno - why does it seem that recently there have been a lot of pieces in the national press by journalists who don't have any context for folk at all? The Telegraph could have got Colin Irwiin to do a much better job - he's writing for them now.