Local food and drink honours for local people

South and West Dorset businesses scooped a series of gongs at the second Love Local Trust Local Awards held at Kingston Maurward College.

More than 100 people attended the awards, held to celebrate the best food and drink and farming initiatives in the county.

Little Waddon Vineyard, near Portesham, was named winner of the Dorset Drinks category, while Steeptonbill Farm Shop in Milton Abbas won best farm shop, with Bridport’s Washingpool Farm as runner-up.

Restaurant Les Enfants Terribles, on Weymouth’s Custom House Quay, won the hospitality award. Eweleaze Dairy at Martinstown came runner up in the cheese category. Awards founder Barbara Cossins, of the farming family at Rawston Farm in the Tarrant Valley, welcomed scores of producers from small startup businesses in their early infancy to those more established.