Sales of game foods such as venison, pheasant and partridge have soared with supermarkets, televisions chefs and top Scottish restaurants placing them at the top of their menus.

Marks & Spencer said its venison sales for the game season – which started on “the Glorious 12th” last August and ends this week – were up 340 ?per cent, while Tesco’s game sales have risen by 10 per cent. Waitrose said it has seen a 38 per cent rise in sales of woodpigeon this season.

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