TODAY is St George's Day, but where is the beef of England? That is what a number of East Lancashire butchers wondered as they waited for their weekend allocation.
Easter holidays had delayed deliveries and at times the joint seemed in jeopardy.
A Great Harwood butcher said: "We have had very little meat this week and, at the moment, not a scrap."
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