BRADFORD-based supermarket Morrisons is selling "wonky" asparagus for £1 as part of a new range of misshapen fruits and vegetables.

From today customers will be able to snap up the normally expensive delicacy for less after a warm early spring caused some of the crop to grow with a curve.

Asparagus is normally sold for £1.75 for a 250g bundle, but the wonky spears are being sold in Morrisons for £1 for 180g, making it the cheapest on the market, store bosses say.

The supermarket has also created the new wonky range to help growers sell their misshapen crops, which in previous years would have been processed into other food products or may not have been harvested at all.

Michael Weightman, asparagus buyer at Morrisons said: “We’ve stepped in to buy the crop as we wanted to help growers and put this normally luxury ingredient into the hands of shoppers for just a pound.”

James Dale from Flamingo Produce said: “The warm early spring and temperature fluctuations has resulted in ten to fifteen per cent of our asparagus crop growing wonky this spring. But it’s only their shape which is different. Growing asparagus takes many years of hard work so we’re grateful that this part of the crop is being sold on to customers and will not be wasted.”