She may have started her chart career by getting Lost in France, but Bonnie Tyler knows she will always find a home in her native Neath.

And never more so than now, as she has become a freeman of Neath Port Talbot.

The singer, whose hits also include Total Eclipse of the Heart and It's a Heartache, is only the second woman to get the freedom of the borough.

Tyler, who was born Gaynor Hopkins 59 years ago, hoped she could "live up to the honour and trust placed in me".

She said: "Who would have thought that a simple girl from a simple family in Skewen would be honoured like this?"