Food lovers were spoilt for choice at the Devizes Food and Drink Festival’s food fair on Saturday.

Wonderful aromas drifted around the Market Place as local producers and those from further afield attracted the crowds.

The food fair was the first event of the week long festival, and fine weather encouraged a good turnout of people who browsed the various stalls.

The produce on sale included Indian delicacies, shellfish, herbs, cheese and meats.

Butchers from Devizes based Walter Rose & Son, the festival’s main sponsor, demonstrated their skills and cooked various cuts of meat.

Nearby were animals from Stokes Marsh Farm in Coulston, which supplies animals to Walter Rose.

Children eagerly gathered around to look at Cleo, an 11-year-old Charolais cow, calves, lambs, goslings and newly hatched chicks in an incubator.

Youngsters were also fascinated by Blackberry and Blueberry, pigs owned by Bishops Cannings farmer Cameron Naughton.

Tim Johnson, of Stokes Marsh Farm, has brought his animals to the food festival fair every year.

He said: “I love meeting people and for them to meet the animals.

“A lot of people don’t know where their meat comes from, so this is educating them.”

Chefs Peter Vaughan and Miquel Pestano from The Bistro in Devizes and Michel