Bradford's St James’s Market has taken the title of Best Wholesale Market in the country at this year’s Great British Markets Awards.
The West Yorkshire venue pipped London rival - and last year's winner - New Covent Garden Market to the title.
The Bradford Council-run market has 35 traders who supply fresh produce to more than 3,500 shops, restaurants and hotels across the Bradford district and further afield.
Educational programmes about where food comes from are run from the market for children, jobseekers are offered community work placements there, and a scheme is being devised to donate unsold fruit and vegetables to community groups in the city and help alleviate food poverty, the Yorkshire Post reported.
St James’s Market has now won the National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA) award three times in the last five years.
