Solved Please help Identify this shrub with attractive flowers in December!

Dear all,
I would appreciate help identifying this shrub with very petite, red/pinkish flowers are dark green gloss leaves. The photo was taken in mid December in a local park near Warrington. Given that not much flowers in December I though this would be easy to identify though my own efforts have drawn a blank......

 

You've got a puzzle there, HGD! Heptacodium flowers and Camellia leaves on a shrub with the habit of an Abelia! The hunt is on

 

Thinking about it, those aren't flowers, they're bracts, so could be an Abelia, but the leaves still don't fit.

 

Definitely Abelia.
Abelia x grandiflora ..glossy Abelia....have 5 pink sepals.
The petals having dropped off.
Leaves look perfect too.

Abelia x grandiflora sepals - Google Search:

 

Thank You Silver Surfer and Noisette47! I had no idea bracts could persist so long after flowering! Apparently the flowering period is from June to October. It is also known as Linnaea x grandiflora and is semi-evergreen. Thanks once again.
Dogsbody ;-)

 

Your excellent photos made all the difference, HGD