Local sausages savoured success at the recent Craft Butcher Awards.

Scott Paton of A D Paton entered their Pork, Honey & Black Pepper Sausage and were delighted to learn this week that they had picked up a Silver Award.

A D Paton who always like to offer their customers innovative meat products submitted their Pork, Honey & Black Pepper Sausage, Piri Piri Port Sausage and Mississippi BBQ Sausage for grilling by the experts at an evaluation held at Our Kitchen to Yours at Newhouse last month. The results were announced at the Craft Butchers regional meeting held at the Garfield House Hotel, Stepps on Tuesday 4 October.

The event organised by the Scottish Craft Butchers and sponsored by Lucas Ingredients attracted an entry of over 200 entries from sausage makers all over Scotland from Orkney to Solway. Judges were drawn from the meat industry experts and enthusiastic sausage aficionados.

A delighted Scott Paton said: "It is great to get recognised by these awards - we use fresh ingredients as opposed to supermarkets, using Scottish pork, and we spend more time and care to make sure we provide a real speciality with our sausages.

"We are going to be doing some special Halloween sausages for this weekend, and some nice pies for Bonfire Night. The wild game season has started so all the venison and game bird is back in stock, which all comes from Cardney Estate in Dunkeld."