THE head of a company selling organic fruit and vegetables has warned customers that her personal email account has been hacked.

Sonia Oliver, of award-winning Coleshill Organics, put out the alert after some of her contacts received emails from sonia.oliver@btinternet.com asking for a 'favour'.

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The company's director apologised to customers, adding: "I am very grateful to everyone who has let me know they have received a clearly 'dodgy-looking' email from me and for explaining that this is an all too common occurrence, as I am really embarrassed by the whole thing."

Ms Oliver has closed the account and will now only use the addresses info@coleshillorganics.co.uk or sonia@coleshillorganics.co.uk.