Soap star Sally Lindsay has been spotted in Kent, enjoying a birthday outing with her kids.

The actor, 50, who is best known for playing Shelley Unwin in the long-running ITV soap, spent yesterday at St Andrews Lakes, a water park in Rochester.

An Instagram post by St Andrews Lakes, shared on the star’s own profile, showed her smiling by the water, flanked on either side by her twin boys Victor and Louie who were celebrating their birthdays. The pair were wearing lifejackets and pictured next to paddleboards.

The aqua park captioned the photo: “It was a pleasure to have Sally Lindsay at the lake today celebrating her boys’ birthdays in style!”

Ms Lindsay commented: “This was literally one of the best days out we have ever had”.

The actor also posted the photograph to her Instagram story with the caption: “Happy Birthday Vic & Lou our beautiful boys”.

In the photo, the performer, who also played Lisa Johnson in the Sky One comedy series Mount Pleasant and Kath Agnew in the BBC sitcom Still Open All Hours, was wearing a black dress, with large sunglasses and Adidas trainers.

The Instagram post has been liked by over 700 people. “Love Sally she's amazing, happy birthday to her beautiful boys,” commented one user, “Fantastic,” added another.

St Andrews Lakes is Kent’s largest aqua park, with large floating playing apparatus, Kayak and Paddle rentals and other aquatic activities.