Hundreds of Bury shoppers were surprised with flowers last week as part of a campaign to celebrate the mums of the borough ahead of Mother’s Day.   

Free bunches of flowers were handed out to mums, grandmas, daughters, aunties and children over three days at The Rock Shopping Centre.  

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The shopping and leisure destination handed out 900 bunches of tulips as part of its campaign to celebrate "Bury’s blooming marvellous mums". 

The centre’s floral-themed event team hosted a pop-up flower cart and gave out flowers on March 16, 17 and 18, as a way to thank mums for all they do. 

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The Rock centre director, Arnold Wilcox-Wood, said: “This Mother’s Day we wanted to do something special to celebrate mums. 

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“We were so pleased to be able to surprise so many of our shoppers over the three-day period, it has been lovely to make so many people smile with such a small gesture.  

“We hope it went a long way to brightening their day.” 

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