Town excited as new butcher's offering old-style retail service opens its doors

EAGER shoppers queued in the cold for the opening of anew butcher's and farm shop.

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Long Eaton's former Poundland store, and before that Wilko, has been given a new lease of life selling fresh items including meat, bread, fruit and vegetables and milk.

The Butchers (not to be confused with the town’s Butchers bar and steakhouse) has opened its doors in The Beeches shopping parade, just eight weeks after the only other butcher in Long Eaton, Paul Walker, closed down.

The meat counter comes with chicken fillets and thighs, pork belly and loin, mince, and a variety of beef cuts. Shoppers can order their Christmas turkeys too.

The array of sausages includes pork, Cumberland, and tomato and bacon. With eggs and black pudding also on sale, there are all the ingredients for a full English.