An award winning butcher from North Yorkshire added another one to the trophy cabinet at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show and said it was the most challenging one yet.
Radford’s Butchers, based at Sleights near Whitby, won the Battle of the Butchers contest which was a new addition to this year’s spectacle of farming, country and rural life which took place across four days in Harrogate last week. Owner Andrew Radford and butcher Pete Everington, who has worked at Radford’s for 20 years, formed a team and went up against eight other teams in heats held across the first three days of the show before an overall winner was announced on the Friday.
I have done competitions before but having said that, it was 26 years since I did the last one like that. 'It was definitely the biggest challenge we have done, it was a lot of pressure. When we finished it felt like we had run a Christmas shop but it was worth it. 'When we went back on the Friday there was some serious competition but we have been working together years and from the feedback thought we might be in with a shout.
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