A QUIRKY Flintshire business is in the running for its very own Oscar award.

Morgan’s Butchers, in Caerwys, uniquely contains a post office and is up for a Countryside Alliance Award, also known as the Rural Oscars.

The business has been shortlisted to win a Countryside Alliance Award in the Welsh Village Butcher of the Year.

The awards are the Countryside Alliance’s annual celebration of British food and farming, enterprise and heritage through small hard-working businesses.

The awards are now in their fourteenth year and have become the definitive rural business award to win.

A spokesman for Countryside Alliance said Morgan’s Butchers had done ‘extremely well’ to be shortlisted, after the awards received more than seventeen thousand nominations this year.

Sarah Lee, director of Countryside Alliance Awards, said: “The awards exist to sing the praises of those who work hard to keep our communities and rural economy ticking, but don’t seek the spotlight.

“These awards provide a cause of celebration in a time of great uncertainty in the countryside. Our local produce is second to none and there are many community heroes and businesses worthy of national recognition.”