MORE than 70 babies will have trees planted in their honour to help celebrate National Tree Week.

Each tree represents one of the 77 babies born during Blackburn Council's Greenweek Festival in May.

All the babies and their proud mums and dads are invited to go along and plant their own tree in Queen's Park on Saturday December 2.

A commemorative plaque will be put in the park showing the names of all the babies and the Mayor of Blackburn, Coun Maureen Bateson, will present a certificate to every baby.

Conservation development officer Nick Wyatt said: "This is a great way of celebrating tree week.

"For every new baby that came into the world during our greenweek festival we are creating a new tree life.

"And they are all being planted in Queen's Park which is in sight of where they were all born in Queen's Park Hospital.

"Hopefully these trees will be there for years to come and each child will know they have got their own tree.

"All the mums and dads have been invited to bring their baby along so we are hoping to see most of them on the day."

The ceremony starts at 10.30am in Queen's Park boat house.

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