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Lancashire ice cream makershave seen their sales double this week as the heatwave sweeping across Britain fuels a surge in demand.
A spokesperson for Blackburn-based Mrs Dowsons Ice Cream said: "We’ve been really busy with orders… a week like this with the heatwave, I’d say they’ve definitely doubled."The manufacturer has seen visitors flocking to its farm shop, which it runs from Hawkshaw Farm on Longsight Road, along with a rise in demand from wholesale customers. The spokesperson continued: "The ice cream parlour on the site definitely gets busier on hotter days.
Its traditional flavours have proven popular this week, but – in a sign of Britons branching out into more experimental choices – so has its black cherry amaretto and peardrop. Similarly, Waitrose ice cream buyer Joe Sharkey said its No.1 Colombian Coffee brand had proved a customer favourite over the heatwave.
However, members of one family business are having to work "longer hours" to cope with the orders mounting from wholesale customers. Julia Lewis, of L Lewis, said: "It’s just an escalation of getting busier, as people are running out of stocks and wanting more supply.
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