JUDY Bell lost her case in the European Court of Justice to call her Yorkshire cheese "feta" but she was fighting on the same premise as the Lincolnshire sausage campaign, which came to Brussels last month asking for their name to be safeguarded by European law.

Commentators have said that Europe's restriction on "Yorkshire feta" was unnecessary and "Europe gone mad" but I guarantee they would feel the same outrage if Spanish and German butchers branded their chorizo and bratwurst "Lincolnshire sausages."

The rule to protect the origin of food works just as effectively to safeguard our British produce as it does for other European countries.

GARY TITLEY MEP, Leader, European Parliamentary Labour Party, Spring Lane, Radcliffe, Manchester.