THEY have been given the seal of approval from the Earl of Grantham and his cohorts, but thankfully Alison Weaver’s sausages are not a work of fiction.

Her pork offerings are the favourite of the Downton Abbey actor Rob James-Collier and the rest of the cast, who have ventured off set to the Bampton shop to get their fill.

These bangers are definitely worth a butcher’s.