It's baking trays at dawn in the pork pie world...

There's a pie fight of epic proportions on the go at the moment. In the pastry corner, the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association, which wants to get Melton Mowbray pork pies included on the EU's list of products with 'protected geographic indication status'. Rather like the French Appellation Controllee, it would mean that manufacturers of the said pies would have to be based in Melton Mowbray. In the pork corner, Northern Foods, which makes the pies in Shropshire and Wiltshire...