FARMERS have staged an impressive campaign to persuade us to buy British, even ploughing the message into fields.

So it is a huge embarrassment that the North's biggest celebration of British farming, the Great Yorkshire Show, was selling Danish and Dutch meat. Well done to the Malton Bacon Factory for coming to the rescue.

The mistake was blamed partly on confusing labelling. Foreign bacon can carry the Union Flag because it was packaged here. This ludicrous anomaly, baffling to show organisers and shoppers alike, should be outlawed as soon as possible.