HUNDREDS of shoppers queued up in Oxford to take advantage of Marks & Spencer’s 125th anniversary Penny Bazaar.

Items up for grabs at the Queen Street store for just one penny included a scarf, a purse, knickers, jewellery, a passport holder and a tea towel.

Customers started queuing from about 7am today, with the store opening at 8am.

There were 310 lucky customers able to choose items for a penny before supplies ran out within the hour.

Some customers got to the store too late to take advantage of the offer, including mum-of-two Beatrice Yeadon, 32, from Weirs Lane, Oxford, who arrived with her seven-month-old son Rocco at about 9am.

She said: “I’m disappointed but I’ll come back tomorrow and try again.”

Store manager Brie Logan said: “Customers who queued up were tremendously excited but it was all very good-natured.”

The penny donations are being given to the Oxford branch of the Child Brain Injury Trust.

The promotion will also be running at the store tomorrow and Friday.

The bazaars are taking place at more than 300 main M & S stores to mark the chain starting out in business as a penny bazaar in 1884.