A Colwall farmer has scooped a national award for his meat and sold the carcass for a record sum.
Dave Bishop, picked up the Supreme Champion award at the Smithfield Club National Festival of Meat.
His winning lamb carcass was then auctioned for a show record of £2,500 - around 55 times the price for a normal carcass.
"It was a good bit of news at the end of a hard year for us," said Mr Bishop, who has raised livestock with his wife Ivy at their Colwall farm for 40 years. He breeds Beltex pedigree sheep, a Belgian breed imported into the UK in the early 1990.
Since his success at Smithfield, Mr Bishop's breeding stock has been in great demand by farmers wanting to re-start flocks wiped out by foot and mouth.
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