A NUMBER of Tynedale businesses will be looking for red carpet success after being shortlisted for a Rural Oscar.

A total of seven organisations from across the district have made the final of the North East’s Countryside Alliance Awards, known as the Rural Oscars.

The awards celebrate rural produce, enterprise and heritage across categories of local food and drink, village shop/post foffice, butcher, rural enterprise and pub.

Brocksbushes Farm, based just off the Styford Roundabout at Corbridge on the A69, will go up against Bardon Mill’s Twice Brewed Inn and Heddon-on-the-Wall business Home from Home Boarding Kennels and Cattery in the rural enterprise category. DPT UK EURO Ltd, of County Durham, makes up the shortlist.

Hadrian’s Game Larder, of Hexham, and Bywell’s North Acomb Farm Shop will go head-to-head with two others from around the region in the local food and drink awards.

The Bird in Bush, in Elsdon, is a contender for the pub award while community enterprise Slaley Community Village Shop has made the final four of the village shop/post office category.

There are no Tynedale representatives in the butcher shortlist.

Countryside Alliance Awards director Sarah Lee said: “We received a record breaking 17,000 nominations this year showing just how much the public values and supports our hard-working rural businesses.

“All of the finalists should be really proud to have gotten this far as it shows just how valued they are in their rural communities.”