Laura Marling announces UK tour dates for next spring

Laura Marling's third album was released in September

Laura Marling has revealed new UK tour dates for spring 2012.

The singer will play 10 dates in total, starting in Cambridge on Thursday 1 March and finishing in Nottingham on Tuesday 13 March.

The tour will include a date at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, which will be Laura Marling's biggest UK headline show to date.

The 21-year-old released her third album A Creature I Don't Know earlier this year.

In February, Marling won the Brit Award for best British female.

She has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize twice, in 2008 and 2010.

The full dates are:

Corn Exchange, Cambridge - 1 March

Symphony Hall, Birmingham - 2

Colston Hall, Bristol - 3

Sage Theatre, Gateshead - 5

O2 Academy, Leeds - 6

HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London - 7

O2 Apollo, Manchester - 9

O2 Academy, Glasgow - 10

Victoria Hall, Stoke - 11

Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham - 13

Tickets for the shows go on sale at 9am this Friday, 9 December.