Thousands of children enjoy summer activities at Wigan borough shopping centre

Spinning Gate Shopping Centre in Leigh offered a range of activities, including crafts such as decorating masks, word searches, colouring, making bookmarks and decorating crowns and tiaras.

Children played games like Connect 4, noughts and crosses and hopscotch, while other entertainment included a stilt walker, ribbon dancer and entertainer doing magic, juggling and unicycle tricks.

Centre manager Karen Cox said: “What an absolute joy to see hundreds of families relax and enjoy a break from shopping at our summer street party. It has been a sheer delight to watch so many families making new friends and making memories in the centre with us and enjoy a relaxing summer.

“With the cost-of-living crisis upon us, watching the pennies is massively important and our summer event provided families with lots to do for free. We welcomed lots of families who joined us every single day and thoroughly enjoyed the events.”