A 16-year-old Worcester girl has become the youngest member of a musical that sets off on a tour of the UK at the start of next month.

Rachel MacLaren, of St Peter's, is taking part in Jail Break, by Birmingham-based songwriter Roger Jones, which tells the gospel story of Paul and Silas in Philippi, and premieres in Birmingham's Adrian Boult Hall tomorrow.

Rachel, a BTEC national diploma performing arts student at Worcester College of Technology who attends Woodgreen Evangelical Church in Warndon Villages said: "I feel privileged to be able to witness within a musical which glorifies God, it is great fun and I am loving every minute of it."