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"Steps have announced a Christmas album and six-date tour. The band release Light Up The World via their own Steps Recordings/Warner Music Artist &amp;amp; Label Services on November 12.  Light Up The World - the group&amp;#039;s first album of newly-recorded material for over ten years - is available to pre-order alongside tickets for the December tour. Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 28 at 9am. They are priced at \u00C2\u00A335/\u00C2\u00A345 and \u00C2\u00A322.50/\u00C2\u00A340/\u00C2\u00A350 for London. In July, Steps star Claire Richards told Digital Spy that she had always wanted to do a Christmas album with the group. Of the band&amp;#039;s future, she added: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d like to continue... There&amp;#039;s things happening and I don&amp;#039;t think any of us want it to stop again, but where exactly we go and what we do is the question.&amp;quot; The full Steps Christmas tour dates are as follows:  November 30 - Plymouth Pavilion December 1 - Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield December 2 - The London Palladium, London December 3 - O2 Apollo, Manchester December 4 - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow December 5 - Wolves Civic, Wolverhampton  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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