INGLETON butcher George Taylor was one of the winners at the 2015 Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage and Black Pudding Competition.

First-time entrant George, who runs the butchery department at Country Harvest, based on the main A65, emerged as reserve supreme sausage champion and recipient of the Devro Cup.

He had first won the thin pork sausage class and the Oris Shield with its breakfast banger, a best seller in both the shop and the on-site cafe.

Mr Taylor was taught the recipe as a 15-year-old when he first started working as a butcher in Ingleton.

Now 23, he took over the butchery department at Country Harvest, owned and run by Mike Clark, in January, 2014, and has been working hard to further develop the meat side of the business. He is the 2014/15 Meat Trades Journal UK Young Butcher of the Year.

“I could hardly believe it – we’re all thrilled to bits,” he said, on learning of his reserve championship success on his Great Yorkshire debut.

Country Harvest also came third in the thick pork sausage class.

Another local winner was Keelham Farm Shop, which has just opened a new outlet on Gargrave Road, Skipton.

Already well-established at Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, it was runner-up in the small pork pie class and the speciality sausage class.

The business is run by brother and sister James and Victoria Robertshaw - the third generation of a family dedicated to nurturing and celebrating great tasting food.

This year’s 27th pork pie contest, organised by The Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils (CYBC), had a new format and was held at a new venue - the Yorkshire Event Centre, Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate.

It formed part of the inaugural Craft Bakers and Butchers Extravaganza and attracted 280 entries from 60 individual contestants.

And while it was thrown open to meat men and women nationwide for the first time this year, it was White Rose butchers who reigned supreme in the two main show classes.

B&M Collins Butchers in Cleckheaton, Bradford, won the flagship pork pie title, with a large stand pie, while Bolster Moor Farm Shop in Golcar, Huddersfield, emerged victorious in the sausage competition with its first-prize thick pork sausage.

Main sponsors were Lucas Ingredients, Blue Seal, AHDB Pork, WR Wright & Sons, The Dalesman Group, William Jones Packaging, Dalziel, Interbake and the NFMFT. Other annual trophy donators included Oris and Ripon Select Foods.