Butcher Andrew Edmonds was presented with the independent speciality award by Oz Clarke for his dry cured tomato and basil bacon made from the Jimmy Butler’s award-winning Blythburgh Free Range Pork.

The judges of the Bacon Connoisseurs’ Savour Your Bacon competition tasted more than 230 products from butchers across the country – all bearing the Red Tractor mark of quality. Bradwell Butchery also won Gold Awards for their smoked and unsmoked bacon.

Keith Fisher, who is a BPEX master butcher, said: “We had a record-breaking number of entries this year, and the standard was incredibly high.”