Meat and greet at opening of Butchers farm shop

EXCITEMENT AS SHOPPERS QUEUE UP FOR 'SOMETHING DIFFERENT' IN TOWN

- By LYNETTE PINCHESS

AROUND 40 shoppers queued in the cold, eager to check out a new butcher's and farm shop.

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 is stacked with chicken fillets and thighs, pork belly and loin, mince, and a variety of beef cuts, including silverside, sirloin, rump, fillet, salmon and whopping tomahawk steaks. Shoppers can order their Christmas turkeys too.

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

Pork pies, quiches, onion bhajis and samosas are supplied by award-winning butcher, AE Chambers in Arnold, while sourdough loaves, cobs, and cakes, including rocky road, tiffin and lemon curd, treacle tart and scones, are some of the baked goods.