To mark the leap year on Saturday 29th February, a number of Congleton traders along with Congleton Town Council joined together to put on a Congleton Bonus Day.

25 shops and businesses in Congleton were part of the scheme, where every customer that spent £5 or more in their shop on that day, completed a raffle ticket and would be entered into a prize draw.

After all the tickets were collected, first, second and third place prizes were drawn at random from more than 300 tickets.

The three winners; first place Linda Bellis, second place Mrs J Butler and third place Jo Hancock received Shop Congleton vouchers to spend in the participating shops.

Each shop put £5 into the pot to make up a grand total of £120, split £60 for first place, £40 for second place and £20 for third place.

The shops that participated in the 2020 February Bonus Day were: Bare Health, Bear Grills, Boots Opticians, Browns Jewellers, Carl Christopher, Congleton Kitchen, Congleton Oatcakes, Damand, Davenports, David James Menswear, Grace Brown Interiors, Hollins & Hollinshead Jewellers, House to Home, Isobel's Fashion House, Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe, No.1 West Street, RJ& J Moore Greengrocers, Rogers Barbers, Ruby's Fund Charity Shop, Specsavers, Sweet Pea, The Little Shop, Vision Express, Wendy's Pet Salon and Wild & Wild Café.

Jackie MacArthur, Town Marketing and Events Manager at Congleton Town Council said: "The aim of the Bonus Day was to get more people shopping locally in Congleton and with more than 300 completed tickets in the draw, I think the Bonus Day certainly helped to do this!

"It was great that the shops were keen to get involved and we are looking to do a similar scheme again in the Town Centre later in the year."