Earlier this month ,the 10 top fish and chip shops in the UK were announced in the national Fish & Chip Shop of the Year competition.

The finalists will now go chip to chip in the national finals in a bid to win the highly coveted title of National Fish & Chip Shop of the Year 2009.

The successful fish and chip shops, in alphabetical order, are:

• Atlantic Fish Bar, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Broughton Fish & Chips, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
• Daniel’s Fish & Chips, Weymouth, Dorset
• Finnegan’s, Porthcawl in Mid Glamorgan, Wales
• Fish & Chicken, Ballymena, Northern Ireland
• Great British Eatery, Birmingham, West Midlands
• Linford’s Traditional Fish & Chips, Peterborough, Lincolnshire
• Metro Fish Bar, Bury, Lancashire
• Royal Fisheries, Whitby, North Yorkshire
• Scooby Snax, Colchester, Essex

We wish Linford's all the best in the final stage of the competition.