A butcher who used a toilet entrance to vacuum-pack cooked meat has been been ordered to pay £4,400 after admitting a string of food safety offences.

Kevin Blanchard, of Master Butcher in Trelawney Avenue, Langley, was sentenced at Slough Magistrates’ Court on April 2 after pleading guilty to seven offences.

They included failing to ensure that lavatories did not open directly into rooms in which food is handled, failing to put in place and implement permanent food safety procedures, and not keeping the premises clean.