Warm welcome awaits crabs fit for a king

As crab sticks go, they should be record-breakers. On Tuesday, the largest crabs to reach Britain - the Red King from Norway - will be served to London's top chefs.

Pascal Proyart, of London's One-O-One restaurant will demonstrate how to cook them as part of a five-course feast. The Red King has legs up to a metre long and is renowned for tasting finer than lobster.

The crabs are among Norway's most expensive seafood exports, though fishermen in the Barents Sea, where the crabs hail from, dislike them, claiming that they destroy other marine life on the seafloor.