She may not have broken any world records but there is no denying that amateur gardener Norma Latham has grown two larger-than-life pumpkins.

The mother-of-one and grandmother, of Spice Hill Road, Warwick, told she was delighted with her 70 pound and 50 pound efforts, which grew after she put some pumpkin peelings onto her compost heap.

Mrs Latham, 58, a nurse at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, said: ?They are huge. People say they have never seen anything like it. I got the plant off the compost and planted it and there were actually four. But one got damaged and one fell and these two survived.

?I?m very pleased because I didn?t do anything specific. I think I?ll cut them up and share them out and maybe make pumpkin soup.?

The world?s largest pumpkin weighed 1,337 pounds, nine ounces, according to the Guinness World Records website.

It was grown by Charles Houghton of New Boston, New Hampshire, and was weighed on October 5, 2002 at Topsfield Fair, Massachusetts.