Winners can't wait for Bristol's new Primark
The lucky winners have been picked in our competition to win a £1,000 shopping spree in Bristol’s new Primark store.
Pearl Harvey, Sophie Morris and Heather Cole have all won an unforgettable shopping trip as VIPs in the store when it opens on Thursday.
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Bristol Primark VIP ticket winners Sophie Morris, Pearl Harvey and Heather Cole
Pearl, Sophie and Heather will be whisked past the queues arriving in Broadmead in a white limousine from Bristol-based Whiteline Limousines.
Once in the store, they will receive £1,000 in vouchers between them – winner Pearl will get £500 and the two runners-up will get £250 each.
To win the prizes, each of them had to tell us why they have the style to be a Primark VIP.
Pearl, 23, wrote a song to try and win – and recorded a performance of it to put on video-sharing website YouTube. In it, she sings and plays her guitar, and the song is called The Primark Blues.
Pearl, who currently lives in Clifton with her boyfriend Nathan, is originally from Vancouver Island in Canada, but moved to Bristol to be with Nathan after they met while travelling in Central America.
But in three weeks’ time, the couple are returning to Canada so that Pearl can complete a degree in sport science.
Although she has recorded an album, performs gigs in Bristol and would like to make it as a singer-songwriter, she wants to complete her education first.
They plan to move back to Bristol when she has finished her degree.
Pearl said: “I absolutely love Primark. I never stop talking about it. I was planning to do a big Primark shop before I went back to Canada anyway, so this is perfect. I can get all my friends gifts from there and spread the word about Primark!
“I knew that writing a song was the best thing to do – it took me 10 minutes and was so fun to write.”
Runner-up Heather Cole, 49, of Henleaze, has fond memories of the original Primark store in Bristol.
She said: “In 1974, I took my first Saturday job there, when I was 14. I got paid £4 a day and worked there for about a year. The uniform was so Seventies – brown and cream checked tabards with a beige blouse underneath. If you touched the tills you got a shock because of all the polyester.
“I was so shocked to win the vouchers. I want to spend some on my grandson, but also want to treat myself to some high heels – I haven’t been able to wear any recently because I have been recovering from a back operation, but now I think I am better enough.”
Fellow runner-up Sophie Morris, 24, lives with her boyfriend in Redland, but during term-time is studying osteopathy in London.
Sophie impressed us with her poem, which incorporated the names of different Primark ranges.
She said: “I love this shop. I can’t wait to see inside the new store. Everyone needs a bit of Primark in their life!”
I have already seen a pair of pink suede boots in the window that I am going to buy – they look fabulous.”
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by NIGEL, Downend
Monday, August 10 2009, 6:04PM
“Sorry Michael, but I can already see Fridays' headline....
"Thousands flock to the opening of Primarks new megastore, with hundreds queueing outside from 6am dispite the rain...etc etc"
Just wait and see.
I might go and have a look sometime to see what has been done to the store, but not before September when the school holidays are over.”
by Spartacus, Bristol
Monday, August 10 2009, 5:26PM
“Michael
"It opens on Thursday, so hopefully we wont hear any more of it. "
There's optimism if ever I saw it.”
by Michael, Bristol
Monday, August 10 2009, 4:52PM
“Primark story yawn.
It opens on Thursday, so hopefully we wont hear any more of it.”
by Paul, Bristol
Monday, August 10 2009, 4:24PM
“Pogo - You do make me laugh sometimes! :)
Me is an intellectual too!”
by Pogo the Clown, .
Monday, August 10 2009, 3:20PM
“"Please, there are intellectual people in other areas of Bristol."
Fixed.”
by Andrew, South East Bristol
Monday, August 10 2009, 2:58PM
“Dianne. SPOT ON !!!!!! Everytime we see winners in competitions that BEP have set up, 99.5% appear to be from Clifton, Redland, Leigh Woods, Clifton Village etc...... Please there is intelectual people in other areas of Bristol”
by Andrew, South East Bristol
Monday, August 10 2009, 2:58PM
“Dianne. SPOT ON !!!!!! Everytime we see winners in competitions that BEP have set up, 99.5% appear to be from Clifton, Redland, Leigh Woods, Clifton Village etc...... Please there is intelectual people in other areas of Bristol”
by Pogo the Clown, .
Monday, August 10 2009, 1:19PM
“"Winners"
Oh, the irony.”
by Farouk Shabal, Bristol
Monday, August 10 2009, 1:17PM
“Typical. A girl with 3 basic chords. Bet she took the guitar travelling with her and 'entertained' the gap year dim wits with stories of stars, sea and souls - sometimes in a different order. All followed by a Singha fuelled juvenile debate with an israeli and a swede about how poverty and child labour were, like, really, like, bad.
Smell the irony Pearl as you board your cheap limousine”
by Alex, Redcliffe
Monday, August 10 2009, 12:33PM
“Wow - another day another Primark story. They didn't have one on Friday so I am guessing they had to make up with it judging by the length of this article. Is there any chance the BEP could actually report some news for a change? There should have been two Primark articles - one when the opening was announced and one on the opening day, certainly no more than this. How much are Primark paying you for this? If they are not paying anything I would suggest your advertising department get the sack for not using this space more cost effectively.”