MEET Little Miss Soul.

She's only 13 but is already making a name for herself on the Northern Soul circuit as a DJ.

Little Miss Soul is Rose Appleyard, of Darton Lane, Mapplewell, and she has a passion for the music and dance which shot to prominence in the late 1960s.

"I have been into it since I was nine when my mum and dad started going out out to Northern Soul nights and they started playing it at home. I tried to dance to it and started going to the nights I was allowed to.

"It's good watching people dance - they do backflips and really fast spins. "I started going up to choose records with the DJ and then dad got my records together and eventually I started playing on my own."

When she's not at Darton High she spends hours trawling the internet for rare tracks and DJing to fellow enthusiasts. She needs two bookshelves to store all her CDs and vinyl and has paid as much as £200 for a record.

"I have got 500 or more records. My favourite changes regularly but at the moment it is 'Home is Where the Heart is' by Bobby Womack. I've got lots of favourite artists, though."

The only problem she has with Northern Soul is convincing her school mates it's good music.

"They think it's like line dancing but they have never seen it. They don't understand it."