Longest-serving Dorset butcher not hanging up cleaver just yet

Pat Jenkins joined the family business in 1958

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Britain's longest-serving butcher is denying her business is facing the chop, despite a growing interest in veganism and the demise of the high street.

Pat Jenkins, who's 80, has been a butcher in Bournemouth for more than 60 years.

She joined the family business in 1958, and says people would look through the shop window in disbelief with the unfamiliar site of a female butcher.

Pat learned on the job and took over when her father died, joined by her son in 1981.

Pat and her son Andrew in the 1980s

There used to be 11 independent butchers on the 3 mile stretch of Christchurch Road, but Masons, named after the original owner, is the last one standing.

Pat says she has respect for those who don't eat meat, but believes the current trend for veganism is just one of many challenges facing butchers today.

Looking to the future, she has no plans hang up her cleaver just yet.