Over the past month, Carlisle has almost matched Glastonbury for pop A-listers.

We’ve had UB40 and Olly Murs and Jess Glynne all play open air gigs to thousands of fans.

But this weekend, the city plays host to the biggest girl band in the world.

Little Mix are expected to pack 16,000 mostly screaming youngsters (and a few parents) into Bitts Park on Sunday.

It is bound to be an amazing night for their fans.

Sadly, not all of them can make it.

Some of their biggest supporters are at the Jigsaw hospice to the south of the city and are unable to make the short trip to the park, even for a short time.

The hospice cares for youngsters from across the county who have life-limiting illnesses.

Instead, they’ve cheekily invited the Little Mix girls to visit them.

They’ve made their own version of the band’s biggest hit Shout Out To My Ex, using their own lyrics to say how much they like the band and asking them to make the 10-minute journey from Bitts to the Durdar hospice.

The minute-long film lacks the high-gloss finish and the shiny costumes of the usual music promo, but it is brilliantly bonkers and for sheer cheek alone, deserves to be successful in its aim.

As world superstars, the Little Mix girls have a ferociously busy schedule to keep and time, of course, is very precious.

They are not easy to pin down, even for media meetings.

All pop stars are constantly bombarded with appeals for help and invites to visit charities and many of them are very generous with their time.

Little Mix themselves appeared at very short notice to take part in the Ariana Grande One Love concert in Manchester which she staged to raise funds for her fans murdered in the bomb attack on her concert there two weeks earlier.

So there is some hope that they could visit the youngsters whose time is even more precious.

They could provide an experience that no-one else could supply, something that money could not buy.

Lesley Faulder, who is activities co-ordinator at the hospice puts it better than me: “How can I put into words what it would mean to them?

“What would it mean to a child who can’t communicate in the ways we often do? Their expressions, their excitement would be priceless.”

So come on girls, spare a wee bit of time from your busy schedule and give some very special fans the memory of a lifetime.