Ooh la la. Madame Fifi promised Dartmouth a striptease and a striptease is what the town got.

But it had absolutely no resemblance to anything you might find down the nearest pole dancing club...possibly to the town's great relief.

The mysterious Madame Fifi had vowed to take her clothes off in the Market Cafe in support of owners Rob and Collette Smith's battle for a ventilation system that was man enough to stop the cafe from becoming steamed up.

They won their fight when the town council weighed in with a £4,000 new commercial ventilation system for the business which Rob claimed he was promised in the first place.

The system was installed a fortnight ago to stop Rob's all glass fronted cafe being left streaming with condensation which was threatening to wreck the floor.

Madame Fifi – whose true identity we can exclusively reveal as cafe regular Brenda Dickinson – decided that the striptease should go ahead as planned anyway.

And more than a dozen customers collected in the cafe to watch the show.

Fifi – dressed very much as a French madame and masked to protect her identity – brought her own music along as she proceeded to dance her way around the cafe.

She stripped off a dress, several pairs of pants and at last two bras to get down to a body stocking before calling it a day.

Fifi, who claims to be in her 60s, left the cafe saying she was off back to France and explained: 'I decided to do it to draw attention to the fact that the council had treated Rob very, very badly.'

She then invited Rob to jet back to Paris with her – but he declined.

Rob said afterwards: 'It was very entertaining and for a good cause.

She is a lady who has supported us for a long time.'

Madame Fifi's antics raised £150 – partly from customers on the day of her big strip off and partly through donations over the last three weeks after she announced she would be taking her clothes off. The cash is being donated to the Rowcroft Hospice charity.