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Countryside Alliance Awards

We warmly congratulate the winners of the Countryside Alliance Awards, announced this week. The winners of the ‘Rural Oscars’ are:

  • Local Food Award: Beadlam Grange Farm Shop and Tea Room, Pockley, Yorkshire
  • Village Shop/ Post Office Award: Feckenham Community Shop, Worcestershire
  • Rural Enterprise Award: Machars Movies, Isle of Whithorn, Dumfries
  • Daily Telegraph Traditional Business Award: The Greyhound Inn, Grizebeck, Cumbria
  • Rural Hero of 2009: Canon Rev Alan Robson, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
  • Political Awards: Grassroots Award: Sir Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed
  • Political Awards: Westminster Award: Philip Dunne, Conservative MP for Ludlow.
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