THE county’s butchers scooped a clutch of gold medals at the annual North West Awards for Excellence in Meat Products held at the Reebok stadium, at Bolton.

The honours went to:
Plumgarths at Lakelands Food Park, on the Crook Road, near Kendal, for four different types of sausage made by on-site butchers Michael Farraday and Paul Harrison. They were traditional pork, Cumberland, Old English and pork, apple and cranberry. (See this week’s Checkout)

Melville Tyson butchers, at Broughton-in-Furness, for – beef and mixed pepper sausage, home cured bacon and home cured gammon.

Huddleston’s, at Windermere - for Cumberland sausage and home-cured bacon.

Burton Butchers, at Burton – for Cumberland sausage and ‘Paddy Murphy’s Irish Sausage’.

Hutchinsons, at Coniston - for home cured bacon.

And Steadmans, at Sedbergh - also for home cured bacon.

The competition attracted entries from 38 butchers who together submitted 170 products for expert scrutiny by judges on behalf of the Meat and Livestock Commission.