Daily Record readers were told about cheeky shoppers getting a sneak-preview taste of a brand new super-fruit created by crossing a pear and an orange.

The tabloid told how shoppers at Braehead were picking the fruit - known as a porange - from experimental trees being grown in the middle of the shopping centre, near Glasgow.

Apparently, horticultural scientists from Spain and Scotland had been working on the top-secret project for the past two years and they chose Braehead as an experimental indoor orchard because of its constant temperate climate and its huge glass roof that lets in much-needed sunlight to ripen the fruits.

Braehead's general manager Peter Beagley was also quoted in the lead article as saying: "We were delighted to take part in this experiment growing the porange trees at Braehead as we were told it was a major breakthrough in packing the most amount of vitamins into a single fruit.

"The whole thing was supposed to be a well-kept secret - and it was, until some eagle-eyed shoppers spotted the bright orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit growing on the trees in the middle of the mall and began picking them off the branches, despite the sign advising to the contrary." As you can see, extra security was needed thereafter.

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