Organised by the Meat Trades Journal, the Butcher's Shop of the year awards celebrate the hard work and achievements of the country's best butchers. The winner of the 2011 UK title is John Davidson, of Davidsons Specialist Butchers in Scotland.

A Scottish butcher has taken the title of best in the UK after beating off competition from across the country in the annual Butcher’s Shop of the Year Awards.

The first round of judging is almost complete, and the first finalists in this year’s Butcher’s Shop of the Year can be revealed.

The judging is done and the results, which will reveal Britain's best butcher's shop, are just days away.

Do not miss out on your chance to join in a celebration of some of best businesses in the butchery arena. Bookings are still available for the UK’s most prestigious butchery competition, MTJ’s Butcher’s Shop of the Year awards.

Does your business have what it takes to be declared the best butcher's shop in the UK?

This month sees the return of Butcher's Shop of the Year, and our search for the best butchery business of 2009 is now under way.