FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was given a lesson in sausage-making for a new TV show.

Heck Food, based in Bedale, opened it's doors to the former MP, now Baron Prescott, for a Channel 5 special about some of Yorkshire's famous food companies.

Isabel Spurway from Masham and Mica Proctor from Bramham, showed John how to make Heck's award-winning sausages and burgers at it's sausage HQ in Kirklington. The show is part of a two-part special and will be broadcast on April 10.

"We're really proud of our Yorkshire roots and it was great fun inviting John Prescott to visit the factory to film alongside us. Isabel and Mica were real stars of the show," said Jamie Keeble, Heck's co-founder.