WREXHAM has been chosen as the only location in Wales to host a big screen broadcast of the massive Live8 concert.

Live8, which will take place on July 2, will be the biggest music event the world has seen since the original Live Aid concert 20 years ago.

Queen's Square in Wrexham will play host to the giant BBC screen, with others being placed in Birmingham, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Belfast and Leeds.

The BBC big screen to be used for the event is only a temporary screen, and not the permanent giant screen proposed for Wrexham.

Alan Watkin, Wrexham's chief leisure, libraries and culture officer, said: 'As the only site in Wales for such an outside live broadcast, Wrexham is in a unique position.

'The quality of the performers and the worldwide publicity will attract a major audience to Queen's Square, which will allow local people to participate in a communal event while stimulating opportunities for our businesses.'

Organiser Bob Geldof has planned the concert to coincide with the G8 summit and it is part of the Make Poverty History campaign.

Tickets are free and millions throughout the world began texting their requests on Monday in the hope of seeing the spectacular event first-hand.

But thanks to the big screen in Wrexham, Welsh crowds will be able to come together to witness Bob Geldof making history for a second time.

'Charity will never really solve the problems. It is time for justice - and 20 years after Live Aid, people now demand it of these eight men,' said Geldof, referring to the leaders participating in the summit.

Bob Geldof is hoping the concerts staged at Hyde Park, London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Philadelphia in America, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Circus Maximus in Rome will be the catalyst for marches to Gleneagles in Scotland, where the G8 summit is taking place.

World leaders George Bush, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder, Silvio Berlusconi, Paul Martin, Junichiro Koizumi and Vladimir Putin will be at the summit, where Bob Geldof hopes to put pressure on the leaders to reduce world debt.

'These concerts are the starting point for the long walk to justice - we will not tolerate the further pain of the poor while we have the financial and moral means to prevent it,' said Geldof.

'The boys and girls with guitars will finally get to turn the world on its axis. What we started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a few weeks. What we do next is seriously, properly, historically and politically important.'

Live8 will also be broadcast on BBC 1, 2 and 3, with radio broadcasts on Radio 1 and 2, the BBC World Service and across the regional BBC stations.

The line-up for the concert in Britain will see artists ranging from Keane, Cold-play and Snow Patrol to Elton John, Madonna and U2 performing.