FORMER Saints manager Lawrie McMenemy has helped launch this year’s Valley Park in Bloom.

He was joined by Valley Park Parish Council chairman Alan Dowden and children from St Francis and Knightwood Primary Schools in the community.

Valley Park has an array of floral displays across the parish which was once part of nearby North Baddesley and they will be judged in the summer as part of the Test Valley in Bloom competition and follows the rules of South East in Bloom.