A SELF-confessed ‘pie eater’ from Lancashire is the toast of the Rugby World Cup.

Steven Turner, 40, is doing a roaring trade feeding thousands of hungry England fans after his company Who Ate All The Pies was asked to provide catering at one of the World Cup stadiums in New Zealnd.

England have played their opening two pool games at the Octagon Stadium in Dunedin and Steven will again be busy today when Martin Johnson’s side face Romania.

Steven, who used to run the Coffeestop Market Café next to the Chorley’s indoor market, said: “All the rugby fans, be they English, Scots, Irish, Kiwis, Aussies or Argentinian, go for the local pies. They want to try the New Zealand Lamb pies, wild hare, and wild venison.

“New Zealand is buzzing at the moment because of the World Cup. It’s getting bigger every day, you can feel it.

“Our biggest seller is our Cornish pasty which is actually made in a Lancashire style where we make the mix then wrap it in puff pastry.

Father of four Steven married his Kiwi wife Julia in Chorley in 2003 after they met in Sydney two years earlier.

They sold their business and emigrated to New Zealand in 2008.

That was when Steven’s appetite set him on the pie path. He said: “I’ve eaten pies all over the world because I’m from Lancashire!

“Myself and a good friend once sat eating pies in a camper van on the Great Ocean Road in Australia and said, if we could bring over Lancashire pies here we’d make a killing.

“I tried a Who Ate All The Pie’ product when we moved to New Zealand and was hooked.

"Shortly after, the business came up for sale. I liked the product that much I bought the company!”

As for the rugby, Steven said he has ‘divided loyalties’ and predicts that England and New Zealand will meeteach other in the final, but can’t pick the winner.