Charity hold-up for fans of McFly

McFly fans will have to wait around to see their heroes perform in Birmingham tonight - after the band announced they would be delaying their performance due to a Children In Need charity show.

The talented foursome are singing the official 2008 Children in Need song Do Ya at the annual bash at BBC Television Centre in London tonight, before flying up to Birmingham's NEC.

It will mean the band delaying the start of the concert in Birmingham by around 30 minutes and finishing at 11pm. Fan club members were sent an email informing the of the change last night, and some said the change would be a problem for some young fans.

Hednesford father Adam Davies is taking his nine-year-old son Ryan to the show. He said: "This is the third time he will have seen them and the audience is always made up largely of children. I think this will be too late for a lot of them.

"The concerts usually go on until about 10.30pm and Ryan is always struggling by then so we will leave a bit before the end."