Camilla Dallerup, former professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing, is to become patron of the Wheelchair Dance Sport Association (UK) (WDSA (UK)), a charity and governing body for wheelchair dance and wheelchair dancesport in the UK.

Dave Turner and Katie Walton set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance ever danced at Hadley Stadium in Birmingham on Sunday, April 7.

The UK's biggest festival of Brazilian culture, Brazilica, returns to Liverpool for the third year running from July 12 to 20. This year's festival will last even longer than previous celebrations, with a week-long programme of events at various city venues warming Liverpool up for the main carnival and parade day on Saturday, July 20.

Manchester dancers Gary Lyness and Paula Moulton swept to victory on Easter Sunday when they won the Amateur Latin title for the third time at the Dutch Open Wheelchair Championships, the largest wheelchair dancesport competition in Europe with over 150 couples competing, in Cuijk, the Netherlands.