BOLTON showed that it has got talent when a variety of wannabe singers and dancers impressed producers during filming for the hit ITV show.

The best performers at the Victory pub in Chorley Old Road and Dawn Dawson's Academy of Dance and Stage in Great Moor Street

could now end up Britain's Got Talent.

Starry-eyed youngsters at the dance school were hoping to get through to the next round of auditions and in front of judges Simon Cowell, David Walliams, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden.

Ms Dawson said: "It was so surreal but really good fun. The children did really well and it was a great experience. Little Freya is only seven and she wasn't nervous at all — none of them were. I'm proud of them all."

The auditions then moved to the Victory Pub in Chorley Old Road which was packed full of eager entrants of all ages who performed their hearts out in front of a cameras.

Producers from the show got in touch with the pub's landlord, Martin O'Gorman, after they spotted he was running his own version — Bolton's Got Talent.

The evening saw more than 40 acts, spanning from seven-year-old Ellie Raylor up to Margaret Sowerbutts, of Bold Street, who was the oldest performer at aged 65 and sang When I Tell You That I Love You.

It was not just singers that took to the stage — nine-year-old beat boxer Reece Taylor and 11-year-old breakdancer Jack Campbell also impressed with their performances, as did dance four-piece A Smile of Hope and Amy Winehouse impersonator Trisha Chantelle, from Breightmet.

BGT veteran James Edgington — one half of 2010 semi-finalists Father and Son with father Graham – also performed, singing No Reason at All by Jonathan Reid Gealt.

James said: "I heard that the auditions were happening in the Bolton News so I called up Martin and asked him if I could do a song. My dad is in London at the moment which is why he's not here."

Brave Aidan McGovern, aged 12, from Heaton, came with his mum Karen and sang for his brother Thomas Watson-McGovern who was found dead in his prison cell in January.

Aidan said: "I am singing Heaven by Bryan Adams and it's in memory of my brother. It's all for him.

"I have always loved singing and I auditioned for the show last year, and they told me to come back, so I did."

Rock star Daniel Edwards, aged 12, from Westhoughton, performed a guitar solo of Sweet Child O'Mine by Guns N' Roses.

He said: "I love rock and metal and have been playing guitar for about four years now and I'm in a band called Pseudonym. I think Britain's Got Talent needs guitars."