Malmo is all a sparkle. Outside the city arena, sequins twinkle in the light.

Eurovision fans have been arriving in force, kitted out in a range of fabulously flamboyant outfits.

In the queue, we meet a group who have travelled from Iceland.

They are all wearing the same multi-coloured glittering jackets.

“United by sequins,” one of them quips, riffing on the contest’s slogan “United by music”.

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