Pop sensation Rick Astley was at number one with Never Going to Give You Up and Van Gogh's painting Irises was sold for almost £30 million.

The year was 1987 and 16-year-old Sue Yee had just finished her O-levels.

Along with many of her classmates she walked out of the doors of Wyke Manor Upper School for the last time and into the big, wide world.

More than a decade later Sue, now 29, of Wyke, Bradford, is planning a reunion for the class of '87 before she emigrates to Vancouver in Canada to start a new life.

The idea came to the former Trent University student after the Canadian government gave her the all-clear for her permanent visa application.

"I'd told my friends and family that I had applied for a visa but it didn't seem real until the letter came through the post confirming I'd been accepted," she said.

"I have travelled quite a lot around the world since I left Wyke Manor but I've wanted to do this reunion for a long time. When the visa arrived it really bought it home what I was doing.

"I thought it would be the last time I will be able to see everyone properly before I set off. It's open to anyone who left the school in 1987. I was in A Band, Class H, and all our year had a maroon uniform, so it's really pupils who were born between September 1970 and August 1971.

"Even if just two or three people turn up, it would still be worthwhile."

Sue plumped for Canada after spending last year working in the country.

When she flies out from Manchester Airport on September 20 she will leave behind her father Kwai Hing Chan and step-mother Evelyn Chan, who run Chan's Chinese takeaway in Wyke, and her two brothers and two sisters.

She said: "In one sense there is no comparison between Bradford and Vancouver.

"Vancouver is absolutely beautiful. It's a port city but you have mountains all around you. And people have such a healthy and active lifestyle.

"I wanted to go somewhere to feel special. Vancouver has the second largest Chinese population, only San Francisco has more, but the Canadians find it quite unusual that a Chinese girl has an English accent.

"I've got a job in a call centre for one of the biggest television companies but I will really miss my family and friends."

For details about the reunion, which will be held at the Queens Hall from 7.30pm on Saturday, September 16, contact Sue Yee at classof1987@hotmail.com