Clydebank’s very own Easter bunny celebrated her birthday last week, receiving ‘thank you’ gifts from some of the people she’d presented with a chocolate egg as a lockdown gift.

Mollie-Rose Shields delivered 600 eggs to hundreds of houses who shared their rainbow drawings in their window, as reported in the Post last week.

She turned 11 last Tuesday with mum Leanne buying her a TikTok themed jogging suit as a present.

And the birthday girl also received gifts from some of the recipients of her Easter generosity – including a rainbow necklace from a girl who received one of her eggs, and £110 in cash raised by a group of Clydebank residents who started a GoFundMe page as a way of saying ‘thank you’.

Mollie-Rose told the Post: “I want to spend the money on books – I have a whole library in my bedroom. I like David Walliams but I’ll read anything really.”

The 11-year-old spent Easter Sunday delivering the last of her chocolate eggs to cheer up people in self-isolation during the pandemic lockdown.

She said: “I usually put the egg on the doorstep, knock the door and then run back to the car. It was pretty tricky to do that on Sunday – everyone was out painting their fence.

“A wee girl in Linnvale ran after me to give me one in return. It was really nice to see how happy it made people.”

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The schoolgirl’s goodwill caught the eyes, and stole the hearts, of hundreds of local organisations and residents, who donated generously to allow Mollie-Rose and Leanne to continue to give out the eggs.

Toddlers and pensioners across Clydebank received an egg and a note which read: “We saw your rainbow, enjoy your egg. Mollie-Rose x”.

Asda’s Clydebank supermarket and John Oliver from Oliver’s Taxis each donated 100 eggs to Mollie-Rose’s effort, while a local Brownie pack and Centre 81 in Whitecrook each donated 60, and Specsavers added 10 eggs to the total.

One resident also passed on 100 eggs from a separate workplace appeal whose delivery plans were scuppered by the lockdown.

Mollie-Rose also received £217 from residents, allowing her to buy more eggs and reach her target of 600 just in time for Easter Sunday.

Leanne also told how ASDA workers have clapped Mollie-Rose when she visits the store, similar to what many shops across Scotland have done when key workers are in the store.

Mollie-Rose’s delivery mission began in Drumry but soon spread to Dalmuir, Whitecrook and Faifley.

She said: “We originally didn’t know who we were dropping the eggs to. When we got a message or when we saw someone come to the door it really warmed my heart.

“Knowing how much it cheered them up was really good.”

Mollie-Rose now plans to write to care homes to thank them for their work and to let residents know she is thinking of them, as well as continuing to write and recite her prayers to her church minister, via FaceTime.