‘Black pudding saved my life’, says trapped butcher

Chris McCabe, 70, used sausage to escape -20C walk-in freezer

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A Devon butcher who became locked in his walk-in freezer has credited a large roll of black pudding for saving his life.

Chris McCabe had gone into the walk-in freezer at his shop in Totnes when a winter gust closed the door behind him, leaving the 70-year-old trapped inside at a temperature of -20C - “capable of killing a human in about an hour”, says the BBC.

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