A LEIGH playgroup is packing away its toys after 12 years.

St Joseph's Playgroup, which meets in St Joseph's Hall, Leigh, shuts its doors this weekend - until someone steps in to take over.

The group was started by Anne Ganley when her own children were small, and she and co-worker Frances Blackburn have seen the nursery grow to a rollcall of 50 infants and six staff.

Anne said: "It will be both a happy and sad day for us."

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