AFTER their appearance in a heart-melting carpool karaoke video to celebrate people with Downs Syndrome, a Bournemouth mum and her daughter are hoping to repeat their success with new footage to be released next week.

Clare Frankland and four-year-old Neive, of Winton, were one of 50 sets of mums and kids who signed and sang along to Christina Perri’s multi-platinum selling track, “A Thousand Years”.

The singer waived her copyright for the video which went viral, with more than four million views, showing mums and their children singing and signing – a way in which some children with Downs communicate.

Now, says Clare, who works as a wedding venue designer, they are hoping to repeat the success.

“I can’t give away the new song, or the singer just yet but it will be something people will recognise and be able to sing along to,” she said.

Unlike the original video, which featured footage of mums in their cars, the new one will show the children out and about and it will also include family members such as brothers and sisters and grandparents.

It was produced to help convince more schools and colleges to teach signing to students and pupils and to celebrate Downs people.

“On the back of the last video we had schools and universities saying they were signing in assemblies and learning it in lectures,” said Clare. “We are hoping it will be taught to as many people as possible. Signing opens up a way to communicate with our children, if they are non-verbal.”

But she is also hoping that the video will reinforce the message that Downs people are not to be pitied and that the bleak picture of life with the syndrome can be banished, too.

“It’s not always easy by any means and we had a horrible first year with Neive, who was very poorly, but apart from taking away her suffering, I wouldn’t change a thing,” she said. “When you have a diagnosis, even now in the 21st century, you still get terrible negativity. But Downs children are not a burden, just different. And if you met Neive you’d find her so funny, she has a great sense of humour and just lights up the room.”