THE drive to support home produce continues with the British Cheese Festival later this month.

The event is being held in Stow-in-the-Wold on September 29-30 and is being supported by supermarket chain Waitrose.

Waitrose has teamed up with the Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter to offer 15 pairs of tickets to a traditional cheese tasting workshop on either the Saturday or Sunday. It will be hosted by the Waitrose School for Big Cheeses and includes plenty of cheesy hospitality and a glass of wine or two.

The prize also includes a Waitrose English Cheese Selection, a combination of Wensleydale with cranberries, Red Leicester, Blue Stilton, Smoky Applewood Cheddar and Somerset Brie.

More than 125 cheese makers will be at the event and as well as the Waitrose School for Big Cheeses, there are classes, world's biggest cheese market, cheese challenges and skittles, as well as the Big Cheese Awards.

The event will also kickstart British Cheese Week, which runs from September 29 to October 7.

To win the tickets answer the following question and hope you are first out of the hat.

Q: Which food shops are supporting the British Cheese Festival, this autumn?

Send your answer, with name, address and daytime telephone number, to Cheese Competition, Malvern Gazette and Ledbury Reporter Promotions Department, Hylton Road, Worcester WR2 5JX or drop it into our offices at Broads Bank, Malvern, or High Street, Ledbury.

The closing date is Friday, September 21, and normal Newsquest (Worcester) Ltd rules apply.