An Asda store currently has a remarkable 18 pairs of mums and their grown-up kids employed at its checkouts – totalling 37 colleagues.

With the youngest ‘child’ aged 16 and the oldest mum 63-years-old.

Wendy Fox has worked at the store, in Derby, for 19 years and now her 20-year-old daughter, Ellie, has followed in her footsteps, manning Click & Collect for the last two years.

Wendy said: "When someone says mum here, we all turn around. We are all friends and often have nights out together too.

“I started out as a temp 19 years ago and I'm still here."

While colleague Clare Dean, 58, met her husband Andrew at the store 30 years ago, and her sisters, Mandy and Sharon, have also been her workmates.

So, it’s no surprise her daughter, Alisha, aged 22, wanted to join in on the action, starting at the supermarket three years ago.

Clare said: "I suppose it was inevitable that Alisha would work here too. We have lunch together every day and it's a real treat working in the same store as her."

Alisha added: "I see mum more here than at home. Each time she comes past she'll check on me and I do the same when I'm passing her department.

“Everyone know she's my mum, but I'm only just discovering how many people here are related and now when I look at some of my colleagues I do think 'you're familiar'.

“It's really special how many mums there are working with their children here.

“I'm taking mum out for some food and to treat her on Mother's Day. She deserves the world, as she's so lovely."

All 18 sets of mother’s and children at Asda Derby:

  1. Wendy Fox and her daughter Ellie
  2. Lucy Morris and her daughter Leah Burton
  3. Ann Stocker and her daughter Jessica
  4. Sam Sharman and her sons Lee and Alex
  5. Claire Morris and her daughter Ellie
  6. Helen Fulwood and her son Jack
  7. Dawn Baker and her daughter Simara Farrar
  8. Merrissa Saunt and her daughter Erin
  9. Dee Vannucci, and her son Louie Johnson
  10. Linda Wood-Mason and her son Ryan
  11. Lisa Conlin and her daughter Mollie
  12. Penny Gedney and her daughter Paige
  13. Lyndsey Mansfield and her son George Sims
  14. Tracey Lawson and her daughter Kirsty Hanrahan
  15. Carol Dunnicliff and her daughter Emma
  16. Clare Dean and her daughter Alisha
  17. Angela Hart and her daughter Amy Thompson
  18. Lindsey Roulinson and her son Ben