A BLACKBURN shopkeeper offered a free flight to a India for anyone who could lift his giant pumpkin. The enormous orange beast was nine feet round and weighed in at 550lbs.
Akhtar Hussain, of New food Store, Whalley Range, paid £80 for the fruit and six men carried it to his van.
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