With promenaders dressed from top to toe in red, white and blue, and the band all wearing Union Jack hats, the atmosphere at Newport's Medina Theatre was enough to rival that of any proms concert.

The IW Youth Concert Band played to a near capacity auditorium to receive three curtain calls and a standing ovation at the end of their full and varied programme of all the proms classics.

Mrs Jill Lock, who chairs the band's Friends association, said, "With this being our third concert the audience is now getting into the habbit of bringing flags and dressing in red, white and blue. For the band looking on from the stage I imagine it must have looked quite something."

Mrs Lock said Tressa was very well received as she put the pomp and circumstance into Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory and the National Anthem among others.

And so too was her fiancé, Mr Ian Briggs, who sang Into The Night with accompaniment from Michelle Brock, the head of music at Trinity Middle School.

Mrs Lock said that as it was half term there were a few musicians away and others were ill with the flu. With both tuba players being absent, musical director Mr Martyn Stroud drafted in ex-member Mr David Yates from the mainland to play along side others who stepped into the breach.