IT'S all smiles for one husband-and-wife team, who won five awards for the meat products they entered in the prestigious Taste of the West Food and Drink Awards 2009.

Jane Barber and Simon Kemp, who run a family farm of 193 acres in North Tawton, along with Jane's children, Callum, 13, and Ella, 11 (pictured), specialise in traditional British rare breeds.

Jane took over Lovaton Farm from her father in 1999 and went on to train in butchery skills. She prepared all the Lovaton meat at the farm and now works with a highly experienced butcher in the on-farm cutting room.

Jane said: 'We are really delighted to have won an award for every one of our beef, pork and lamb products entered in the Taste of the West Awards this year.

'We believe this is a testament to the consistent high quality and delicious taste of our meat.'

The livestock, which is all traditionally reared, includes 115 Dexter and Dexter X Devon cattle.

The award-winning meats this year included a Dexter X Devon rib of beef, which won gold, a Dexter X Devon sirloin steak and a Lleyn lamb rolled loin, both of which picked up silver and a Lleyn lamb valentine steak and Gloucester Old Spot leg of pork, which both won bronze medals.

Lovaton Farm has entered the Taste of the West awards every year since 2006. The competition attracts entries from thousands of top producers across Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucester.