What goes into Britain's most innovative sausage?

A woman with tied-back blonde hair and a man with short fair hair are both dressed in wite coats and blue-and-white striped butcher's aprons. They are in a white-tiled butchery with rosettes along the top of the tiles and framed product photos above. The pair are holding framed certificates and wooden awards in their handsBBC/Andy Martindale

Darren Morgan and daughter Lauren are celebrating two prizes in the National Craft Butcher Awards.

Andy Martindale and Tim Pagein Shropshire

A prize-winning butcher accepts customers will either "love or hate" the sausage that has attracted his latest national award - the Marmite and cheese banger.

Darren Morgan from Shropshire, won the best innovative sausage category at the National Craft Butcher Awards.

Mr Morgan, whose shop is Waters Upton near Telford, said judges had been surprised at how well the flavour combination worked.

Other winners included Perry's of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, for its black pudding, and Robinson's of Tettenhall in Wolverhampton, which won the best traditional sausage category.

Morgan's Country Butchers also picked up the judges' choice award for its Gloucester Old Spot sausage.

Mr Morgan is the fourth generation of his family to run the firm and works alongside daughter Lauren, the fifth.

He said they continually tried to improve their products, and awards were a good mark of success.

"There's an old adage - 'When you stop getting better, you stop being good'," he said.

Composite image, with one shot showing two men standing beside a wall painted "Perry's field to fork artisan cookery school", and another showing three men standing outside a high street butcher's frontage. All those photographed are holding certificates and awards.National Craft Butcher Awards

Other winners included Perry's of Eccleshall and Robinson's in Wolverhampton

Organisers of the awards "seek to uncover and reward the outstanding products being made every day by dedicated and highly skilled craft butchers".

More than 200 entries from across the country were tasted by industry experts to find the winners.

Products were entered across nine categories, from traditional sausages to hot and cold pies.

Head judge Keith Fisher, said: "I never fail to be surprised and delighted at the quality and innovation demonstrated by our butchers right here in the UK.

"Today's winners truly deserve their awards and they should be proud to represent the best of craft butchery."

Four black plastic trays of sausages in a butcher's display. The sausages vary slightly in colour by variety. Two of them are labelled "katsu curry pork sausage" and "Marmite and cheese sausage", both at £15/kg.BBC/Andy Martindale

Marmite and cheese is one of Mr Morgan's speciality sausages, which also include katsu curry bangers

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