SHOPPERS in Newton Abbot received a rare Valentine’s Day treat after a sprightly devil raced around the town dishing out red roses.

The satanic sprint through the town centre was executed by a nippy Samuel Whittington whose exploits left shocked recipients open-mouthed.

His obscure objects of desire took the fun-run caper in good heart as the horned philanthropist disgorged 100 floral tokens of his affectation.

And the whole merry gadabout was filmed and put on youtube where it was quickly hitting the 100 views tally early this morning.

A breathless Samuel, 20, said after his exertions: ‘The response was very positive, although some of the blokes thought I was trying to steal their girlfriend.’

The film took three hours to shoot, five hours to edit and just over three minutes to watch.

The final version can be seen on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7nIPKVuHs

Samuel works for Scarlett Entertainment in Newton Abbot as a social media and digital marketing apprentice.

His ambition is to work in creative video production