Real, traditional Cumberland sausage. What a great product. But anyone can make anything anywhere and give it that name. Something should be done.

Hopefully, it will be. A group of Cumbrian butchers are trying to use EU law to protect this famous food name. Parma ham producers have done it, Champagne producers have done it, Melton Mowbray pie and Cheddar cheese producers have done it, even Newcastle Brown can only be brewed in Newcastle. Anyone trying to produce a product with that name, but not from that area can be sued for passing off' their goods as genuine'.

While they are at it, they could protect the meat form our native breeds of sheep and some of our other recipes and products. Cumberland Rum Nicky, Westmorland Damsons, but not Cumberland Sauce it's named after the Duke of Cumberland, like the apple Egremont russet, which isn't from Egremont, rather named after a person.

Celebrating what is unique about this county and what we do best is vital to keeping us on the map and in the public eye.

Let's use all our advantages like we use the pig, use everything but the grunt!