SHE was Southampton s answer to Vera Lynn. Brenda Pritchett, who used her maiden name of Brenda Logie on stage, was well-known and much-loved as the city s wartime singing sweetheart. Her most memorable evening on the stage came in May 1945 when she was interrupted mid concert by an officer s announcement that the Nazis had surrendered and war in Europe was over. It became a mass celebratory sing-along that went on long into the night. Brenda, who passed away in Southampton on January 5, was a teenage convent school girl at St Anne s when she first entertained the troops as part of the Starlight Parade.