Daniel donates specs

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe's spectacles will form part of a new artwork to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.

The actor, whose mother is Jewish, has donated his first pair of glasses to an exhibition leading up to National Holocaust Memorial Day.

Radcliffe, 18, gave the specs, an oval, grey metal-framed pair, to the Respectacles Project.

Sending them in to the collection, the teenager included a note saying: "Please find enclosed my first pair of glasses which I wore at school at six. I wish you every success with the exhibition."

Other celebrities donating their glasses include Yoko Ono, Stephen Fry, Jerry Springer, Paul O'Grady and Ronnie Corbett.

Around 1,000 pairs have so far been donated to the art project, which is inspired by a famous Second World War picture of a mountain of mangled spectacles - a stark illustration of the scale of the death and human suffering.

Radcliffe's Potter co-star Jason Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy, will participate in the commemorations on National Holocaust Memorial Day, on January 27, when he leads a service at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall.

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