The tour is set to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Popped In Souled Out.

Wet Wet Wet will take to the stage at Oxford’s New Theatre on Tuesday, October 5.

Graeme Clark, founding member of the band, said: “When we made Popped In Souled Out, I was just a young guy.

“Forty years later, those songs have taken on a life of their own, and this tour is about celebrating where it all began without forgetting what followed.”

Released in 1987, the album reached number one in the UK and featured hit singles including Wishing I Was Lucky, Sweet Little Mystery, and Angel Eyes.

The band, now made up of Graeme Clark, guitarist Graeme Duffin, and vocalist Kevin Simm, will perform tracks from the debut album alongside other hits from their career.

Mr Simm said: “I’m really excited to be going back out on tour in 2027 and celebrating 40 years of Popped In Souled Out.

“It’s an absolute honour and a privilege as always to sing these iconic and timeless songs, and to perform them in so many venues across the UK to so many fans of the band is really a dream come true.”

The group’s 2027 tour will include two runs across the UK, in February and October, and will feature special guests on selected dates.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 17 at 10am via Ticketmaster.

The Story Museum will open the Mystery Academy: School for Young Detectives on Saturday, July 18.

The exhibition will immerse visitors in a fictional detective boarding school, complete with a missing head teacher—Christie Moyo.

The experience is built around an original story by award-winning author Sharna Jackson.

Designed by the museum’s Story Curators, a group of young people aged 12 to 16 who work with the museum’s production team, the exhibition combines hands-on detective work with literary exploration.

Author Sharna Jackson said: “It’s been an honour to collaborate with the Story Curators on Mystery Academy – it’s been such a collaborative, imaginative, and fun process.

“Together we’ve created an experience where visitors arrive for a seemingly normal school open day, then quickly find themselves cast as detectives.”

Visitors can follow clues, solve puzzles and explore themed rooms including a forensics lab and a library.

They can even discover a hidden door in a bookcase.

Conrad Bodman, CEO of The Story Museum, said: “We are delighted to be opening this stunning new interactive exhibition, which celebrates the history and rich variety of the detective genre.

“Young people are at the heart of our collections and exhibitions, so who better to ask to design our next exhibition than the young designers of the future? Our Story Curators, whose curiosity, energy and talent has filled a brand-new exhibition that young detective fiction fans will love; it will also no doubt enthuse and entertain those new to the genre, and those who simply love great stories.”

Visitors will have a chance to explore the history of the detective genre, with some of their favourite characters and authors; from the classics like Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse, to contemporary authors such Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike and Mini Grey’s Hermelin and Mark Haddon’s Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Author Robin Stevens has also provided additional creative consultation on the exhibition.

He said: “I’m so delighted that my characters and I will be part of the upcoming Mysteries exhibition. The Story Museum is such a special place, and one I’ve loved for years.

“I’m delighted that they’re putting the mystery genre front and centre of this new exhibition.

“I know this will spark so many readers’ imaginations, and allow children to see themselves as the brave, smart, thoughtful detectives they all are.”

The exhibition will also display historical detective tools, including early fingerprint kits and a camera hidden in a waistcoat.

A 1944 Piper L-4H ‘Grasshopper’, registration G-CMIZ, has been listed for sale on global aircraft marketplace Sprinkle from South Oxfordshire.

Originally built for the US Army Air Forces, the aircraft saw active service from August 1944 and is recorded as having served under General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army during the final advance into occupied Europe.

The 1944 Piper L-4H “Grasshopper” has been listed for sale in South Oxfordshire (Image: Sprinkle)

This type of light observation aircraft played a ‘crucial role in reconnaissance and artillery spotting’ during the Second World War, according to the listing, operating close to the front lines in some of the most pivotal battles of the conflict.

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It participated in the Battle of the Bulge and operations around Bastogne, and crossed the Rhine during the Allied advance toward Czechoslovakia before remaining in Germany until the end of the war.

The 1944 Piper L-4H “Grasshopper” has been listed for sale in South Oxfordshire (Image: Sprinkle)

Following its military service, the aircraft passed through civilian ownership in Belgium, was later recovered from Germany in the 1980s, and eventually returned to flight in the United States.

Between 2021 and 2025 it was ‘comprehensively’ restored, including a new fabric covering and a return to its original 87th Infantry Battalion paint scheme.

It’s now based at a private airstrip in South Oxfordshire, near Abingdon, and being offered for sale at £75,000.