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.