Manchester Arndale record footfall

Manchester Arndale, the UK's largest inner-city shopping centre, is celebrating

 its best-ever annual footfall total with over 41 million visitors in 2012.

Footfall rose to 41,377,255 visitors from 40,713,772 in 2011.

David Allinson, centre director, said: "Every week in December, footfall exceeded a million shoppers which has never happened before - a real achievement for us. We found more people left their Christmas shopping until later this year, with the week beginning 17 December being the busiest showing an increase of 13.2% visitors on the last year."