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The Home Office secretly funded a little-known boy band to sing songs about anti-radicalisation across the UK.

Boyband Mr Meanor, which featured singers from Essex and Los Angeles, travelled across parts of the country as part of school visits.

They went to schools in the north of England in 2016 to deter young people from becoming Islamic extremists.

The band visited schools in Burnley, South Manchester, Leeds and Blackburn as part of the tour.

One of the schools had a student who had travelled and joined ISIS a couple of years earlier.

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The band publicly released a song in aid of Foundation for Peace - a Warrington-based charity founded by the families of victims of an IRA bombing in the 1990s.

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