Not a secret gig, just Le Creuset: Inside Hampshire’s four-hour, police-patrolled queue for cookware

You would be forgiven for thinking Oasis had announced a secret gig at a Hampshire warehouse after pictures emerged of thousands queuing, marshalled by police.

But it wasn’t Britpop that led crowds to descend on Andover this weekend, but bakeware: with shoppers desperate to bag a bargain at a “first come, first served” sale held by Le Creuset.