An engineer was dispatched to a town centre gas leak emergency that turned out to be a green grocer’s very smelly fruit.

The worker, from Cadent gas company, visited a number of shop in Lytham, Lancashire, to test for gas after a shopper reported a strong smell of the toxic substance.

How once they reached Strongs Fruit and Veg shop staff informed them that the odour was actually durian, known as the smelliest fruit in the world.

Store assistants Wai Peng Cheng, 51, and his partner Candy Pooi Kuan Lam, 46, had not been aware of the emergency callout and had ‘no idea’ what was going on when they spotted the engineer with his testing equipment.

Wai Peng said: ‘We saw a gas engineer pull up in front of the shop at around 1pm and he went into the charity shop next door.

‘About an hour lat

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