A husband and wife team have won the supreme pig championship on only their second visit to the Royal Norfolk Show - and received their trophy from the Duke of Edinburgh.

Malcolm and Sue Hicks, who run three pedigree herds of about 50 sows, were presented to Prince Edward with their champion Large White pig.

Mrs Hicks, who showed the July-born gilt, was delighted to win her first supreme inter-breed title ahead of her husband’s three-year-old Gloucester Old Spot sow.

They have been keeping pigs for about 25 years near Coventry. Their biggest herd of Gloucester Old Spots was founded a quarter of a century ago but they started a Tamworth herd in 2021, and Large Whites two years ago.

Elsewhere in the pig classes, former supreme inter-breed winner Ann Long, of Frans Green, Dereham, won the reserve male Saddleback championship with a young boar named Grand Duke.

Mrs Long, who has attended almost every Royal Norfolk Show since her father started the Saddleback herd in 1964, lost her champion sow after it was injured. But she hopes to return to the showground at Costessey next year.

And next week, she heads for the four-day 165th Great Yorkshire Show at Harrogate to judge the supreme pig inter-breed championship for the first time. “I’ve competed there many times over the years and I’m just a little nervous about judging the supreme,” she said.

A special award for best Norfolk-born and bred pig was won by Peter Churchyard, of Breckles, near Attleborough, with a July-born Large Black gilt, Breckles Grandeur 28.