Community news: Farmer's daughter wins British Pie Awards

British Pie award finds home in Middleton-in-Teesdale

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Community news: Farmer's daughter wins British Pie Awards

Hailing from a beef and sheep farm in Wensleydale, Lydia Sunter - owner of the Middleton-in-Teesdale Fish and Chip Shop, Co Durham - was crowned this year's supreme winner of the British Pie Awards.

Over 900 pies were entered from across the country, judged by a team of 140 judges, who named Ms Sunter's minted Wensleydale lamb and potato pie as supreme champion.

See also: Herefordshire farm family reaps fruits of diversification

Since purchasing the fish and chip shop 12 years ago, Ms Sunter says she has always used meat from her family farm, near Hawes, to make the pies, including beef from the family's herd of pedigree Limousin cattle and lamb from their flock of Swaledale sheep.

Ms Sunter says she has been entering the British Pie Awards since 2016, and while they have always come home with a ticket, it marks the first time they have won a class and been crowned supreme champions.

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