Britain's Smelliest Cheese Championships were held at The Royal Bath and West Show in Shepton Mallet, Somerset and the winner was......

'The Stinking Bishop, made by Charles Martell of Martell and Son in Gloucestershire, described as smelling like a rugby club changing room.

The panel's chairman, Tim Rowcliffe of Antony Rowcliffe speciality cheeses, said: "The cheeses were all fantastically smelly but Stinking Bishop absolutely knocked us out."

Stinking Bishop is washed in a Gloucestershire perry made from a pear variety called Stinking Bishop.
The pear was named after a reprobate farmer with an appalling reputation as a drunkard, who famously shot his kettle when it took too long to boil.'