EMMERDALE star Sammy Winward has been spotted eagerly shopping in the sales.

The Bolton lass was spied rooting through the bargains at USC, on Market Street, Manchester.

The Gossip is sure her flurry of energetic money-saving will impress the typically cash-conscious Yorkshiremen who prop up the bar at The Woolpack.

Our snoops also saw Bolton funnyman Peter Kay parked at Tesco Express, on Bolton Road, Bury, as his heavily pregnant wife Susan popped inside to buy last minute items on Christmas Eve.

And Wanderers star Jay-Jay Okocha was seen pushing a trolley around Bromley Cross Co-op -- as his two beautiful children helped choose items from the shelves.

Coronation Street star Nikki Sanderson enjoyed a bit of Christmas sale shopping in Manchester.

The young actress was so consumed in hunting down that bargain, she walked straight into one of our reporters -- literally. After profusely apologising, pretty Nikki carried on looking for that bargain in various shops in the Royal Exchange walkway.

She was not the only one. Ex-Liverpool super sub David Fairclough looked bored to tears as he was being dragged around Kendals by his family.