UNITED Utilities celebrated the completion of a £3.8m green scheme in Lymm by planting thousands of bulbs with volunteers.

The company has just finished building a huge underground tank which will clean-up nearby Sow Brook and marked the occasion by laying 5,000 crocus bulbs in the area.

Volunteers from the water firm, as well as from Groundwork, Life for a Life, Marks and Spencer, contractors VJ Donegan and Co Ltd and residents, also took part in the fun.