Jess Glynne scores UK number one

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Jess Glynne has topped the UK singles chart for the first time as a solo artist with her track Hold My Hand.

The 25-year-old Londoner got two number ones last year as a guest vocalist on Clean Bandit's Rather Be and Route 94's My Love.

"To get a number one in my own name is one of the most insane feelings," she said.

The singer outsold her nearest rival, James Bay's Hold Back the River, by 40,000 copies.

Former number one King, by Years & Years, fell one place to three, with Rihanna, Kanye West and Sir Paul McCartney collaboration FourFiveSeconds at four.

Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do remained at five.

Last week's number one - Sam Smith and John Legend's version of Lay Me Down, made for Comic Relief - fell to six.