Just found this via the BBC site:
World’s hottest chilli and comes from Grantham | The Sun |News
Apparently it is not an April fool.
Chilli grower Woody Woods, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, is laying claim to the world's hottest variety of pepper. Tests carried out by Warwick University rate the Infinity chilli at 1,067,286 on the Scoville Scale, which is used to measure the heat of peppers - hotter than the Bhut Jolokia variety which is used for crowd control by the Indian Army.
Apparently it is not an April fool.
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