‘It’s coming home’: a trip back to 1998, and Britain’s last Eurovision

Terry Wogan and Ulrika Jonsson were on duty when the UK - near-flawlessly - hosted the song contest

It's 9 May 1998. All Saints are top of the charts, New Labour has been in power for the past year and David Beckham has yet to be sent off against Argentina at the World Cup. Life is good.

Fast forward 24 years and you could be forgiven for forgetting that, amid the haze of the late 90s, it was also the last time Britain hosted the Eurovision song contest, hot on the heels of Katrina and the Waves' success with Love Shine a Light 12 months earlier in Dublin.