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News2024 UK Sausage Week winners unveiled
The winners of the 2024 UK Sausage Week competition have been exclusively revealed at a sell-out celebration lunch which took place at Butchers’ Hall, London.
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NewsUK Sausage Week returns next week
Retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and foodservice are gearing up for this year’s UK Sausage Week 2024, which will return as from Monday 28th October.
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NewsCountdown begins to UK Sausage Week 2024
The much anticipated UK Sausage Week (UKSW) returns as from Monday 28th October with many butchers, supermarkets, foodservice and manufacturers across the UK involved.
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NewsSausage Week competition deadline is this Friday 2nd August
Sausage nominations for this year’s UK Sausage Week competition must be completed via the website by the final deadline this coming Friday 2nd August.
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NewsMcCaskie's takes home fourth National Black Pudding Championship win
Owner of McCaskie's Butchers, Nigel Ovens, has retained the National Black Pudding Championship title for 2024 with his fourth win in the Scottish competition.Nigel Ovens said he was "elated" to retain the championship title.The winning product was a new recipe created for the company's sub brand, Pirie's, which won the ...
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NewsUK Lions butchery squad revealed ahead of 2025 World Butchers' Challenge
The UK Lions squad for the World Butchers' Challenge in Paris 2025 has been revealed, featuring 19 butchers from around the country.Teams of butchers will go head to head at the World Butchers' Challenge, showcasing their butchery skills.With industry backing from the newly formed Team GB board, the UK Lions ...
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NewsTeam Scotland crowned winners of Four Nations Butchers Tournament
Perth-based father and son butchery team Richard and Ben Megahy have placed first at the Four Nations Butchers Tournament in Ireland.Richard and Ben Megahy of Simon Howie Butchers placed first at the tournament.Richard has been a butcher with Perth-based Simon Howie for 27 years, while Ben has been working for ...
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NewsWelsh Craft Butcher of the Year announced
The Culinary Association of Wales (CAW) has announced that Philip Tucker from Mumbles has won Welsh Craft Butcher of the Year.L-R: Lesley Griffiths, Philip Tucker and CAW vice president Colin Gray.Tucker, a butcher at Tuckers Butchers in Mumbles, was crowned Welsh Craft Butcher of the Year by judges at the ...
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NewsScottish father and son take on Four Nations Butchers tournament
A Perth-based team made up of Richard Megahy and his son Ben, will represent Scotland at the Four Nations Butchers tournament in Ireland on Sunday 28th January.L-R: QMS Scotch Butchers Club manager Gordon Newlands, with Ben and Richard Megahy of Team Scotland and Karl Hearton from Kinnaird Butchers.The tournament will ...
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NewsWelsh Craft Butcher of the Year returns for 2024
The Welsh Craft Butcher of the Year final will be held at the Welsh International Culinary Championships (WICC), taking place from 22nd-24th January 2024 at the International Convention Centre Wales (ICC Wales), Newport. Welsh Craft Butcher of the Year 2023 winner Adam Jones in front of his display.The free event ...
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NewsLiveScot event celebrates beef and lamb livestock excellence
LiveScot, the annual livestock event held by the Scottish National Fatstock Club, took place in Lanark and was supported by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and John Scott Meats.Jason Ward, general manager at John Scott Meat.It showcased the Royal Smithfield Club Beef Ribs and Saddle of Lamb competitions, with entries judged ...
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NewsWBC 2025 head judge announced as former Team GB captain David Lishman
The World Butchers' Challenge (WBC) has announced its new head judge for the 2025 event as Great Britain's David Lishman - previous three time captain of the Team GB for WBC events across a ten-year period.David Lishman, the new 2025 WBC Head Judge.Lishman was part of a team - involving ...
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NewsScottish champions for burgers, sausages and haggis
The Scottish Craft Butchers Awards for the categories of Speciality Burger, Make It With Haggis and Pork Sausage went to retailers in Banff, Newton Stewart and Dumfries.Lee Ross, a butcher at John D Owen & Son in Newton Stewart being presented with the Diamond Award in the Make It With ...
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NewsBetter Burger Challenge finalists announced
The Better Burger Challenge, a contest aimed at encouraging pupils to explore product reformulation and create healthier versions of the classic burger, has announced its finalists.Chef Findlater (centre), along with judges Jennifer Robertson (left) of Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and Moira Stalker of FDF Scotland.Developed in partnership with Food and ...
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NewsParis to welcome world's top butchers in 2025
The countdown to the World Butchers’ Challenge (WBC) has officially begun, with the culinary capital of Paris, France chosen to host the event in March 2025. The World Butchers' Challenge is to be held at Paris Arena Sud 6 in France, 2025.Branded by many as the ‘Olympics of Meat,’ the ...
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NewsLanarkshire butcher crowned first World Haggis Champion
A 40-year-old family recipe never before trialled in competition has secured the first ever Haggis World Championship for North Lanarkshire butcher Coopers of Bellshill.Winner of the 2023 World Haggis Championships Laura Black of Cupar Butchers, Bellshill.Owner Laura Black admitted she entered the inaugural world title-chasing bid “in hope rather than ...
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NewsScottish Craft Butchers Trade Fair welcomes ‘Butchers Wars’ competition
Talented butchers will go to war in Perth this weekend as they battle it out in what organisers describe as the Scottish meat industry’s most fiercely contested competition.Butchers do battle at a previous Butcher Wars competition in Perth.Butcher Wars – the theatrical challenge of a country’s butchers – is a ...
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NewsFinalists announced for this year's Great-Agri Food Debate Grand Final
Organised by Dawn Meats and McDonald’s, the Grand Final of this year’s prestigious Great Agri-Food Debate will be an all-Ireland affair as South East Technological University (SETU) and University College Cork (UCC) are set to face-off in London in two weeks’ time.The competitors who took part in the Great Agri-Food ...
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NewsNew Welsh Butcher of the Year Adam is top of the chops
The new Welsh Butcher of the Year is 18-year-old Adam Jones who says becoming a butcher was the best decision of his life.Adam Jones receives the Welsh Butcher of the Year prizes from Arwyn Watkins, OBE, Culinary Association of Wales president.Adam, who lives in Penyffordd and works for Swans Farm ...
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NewsWho will be the top of the chops as four butchers contest Wales final?
Four butchers are sharpening their knives in preparation for a contest next week to find the best in Wales at their craft.Butchers showing their skills at a previous competition.The finalists of the Welsh Butcher of the Year contest, which will be held at the Welsh International Culinary Championships (WICC) at ...
