The Gloucester Citizen has received a huge response to its efforts to bring back a famous rose from the city’s past.

The newspaper was inundated with phone calls after offering readers to chance to buy their very own Gloucester rose.

The yellow-flowered rose was introduced in the UK in the 1970s but is very rare nowadays.

So, as part of its millennium campaign, the Citizen called on any readers who still owned the original plants to donate cuttings so that others could grow them.

And the appeal has resulted in hundreds of new rose plants being cultivated from the donated cuttings.

Since then, the newspaper has received call after call from readers desperate to own one.

Most of the roses are being cultivated at nearby Highfield Nurseries by Trevor Wellington.

He said: “The roses have been selling very well, and we are expecting to be out of them soon.”

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