THE OWNER of a Malvern gift-card shop has reminded customers she is still here after a number of visitors asked if the shop was closing.

Claire Riley, who owns All Occasions in Court Road, Malvern, said she has had several customers come in to the shop after the bakery next door, which the shop was connected to having previously been owned by the family who owned the bakery, asking if it too was closing down.

She said: "Since the bakery closed down we have had people coming in repeatedly asking if we were closing down too so we just wanted to get it out there that we are still here.

"We have very loyal customers and we wanted to reassure them that we are not going anywhere."