Toy cars, plants, clothes... and jumbo sausages

We check out what's on offer at town's big car boot sale

- EMMA GILL

IT had been years since I'd been to a car boot sale. After doing a stall to sell some of my children's toys when they were younger, the 5am get-up and requests to sell items worth pounds for a pittance was not something I was keen to repeat in a hurry.

But there's one car boot sale that's booming right now, and you don't need to be up at the crack of dawn to experience it.

As well as the usual Sundays, Bolton Car Boot Sale now takes place each Wednesday, open to sellers from 10am and buyers from 11am. Parking is a quid, or £3 if you want to get there early.

It was just after 11am when I arrived as a customer this time - at the site outside the Bolton Wanderers stadium in Horwich. The place was already heaving, with row upon row of sellers and hundreds of shoppers there to scout out the bargains.

I'm pretty sure that no matter what you had in mind to buy, this place would have it.

There was everything from clothing - 'all ladies clothes 50p' shouted one seller to trainers, toys, tools, toilet rolls (£6 for a pack of 36 in case you're wondering), plants, computer games and everything in between. Someone was even selling wheelchairs, for a bargain £30 each.