A quick-thinking butcher who got trapped in his own walk-in freezer was praised by King Charles III after he came up with a unique way of saving his own life - by battering his way out with a frozen black pudding. Chris McCabe, 74, feared that he might die after getting stuck in the fridge which stores meat at temperatures of -20C.
He was unable to access the emergency release button as it had frozen over - and his calls for help went unanswered. As the butcher started to accept his fate, his eyes fell on a sausage of black pudding - coincidentally from the King's butcher HM Sheridan of Ballater, and used it to beat the ice off the emergency release button and free himself.
