Lanarkshire's arts students feel on top of the world as they record music video in the Big Apple

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A group of performing arts students from North Lanarkshire were feeling on top of the world during a recent visit to New York.The youngsters from Go Kids Scotland, which is based in Wishaw, got a bird’s eye view of the Manhattan skyline and beyond from the Top of the Rock (observation deck on the Rockefeller Center) and the Empire State Building.Go Kids’ principal Garry King organised the trip to the States and there was a surprise in store for one youngster not long before they were due to jet out.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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We were meant to be taking nine but in the end up we were able to take 10.“They were all so well behaved and just so grateful for all the support they had from everyone to get them there.”The group also enjoyed taking part in the annual Tartan Day Parade.Garry added: “There were people there from all over the world as well as New Yorkers. “The weather was amazing, and during the parade the guy walking behind us was a policeman from Wishaw who had travelled over.

And another guy, two behind, was from Armadale. "It was lovely to be there, and we bumped into about 20 different people who some how knew