(1) Alas, the York poulterer had only large turkeys left in the shop, so what he did was cut the birds in half.

(2) It's good news for poulterers but poor news for the vicar - nearly three-quarters of us will tuck into turkey at Christmas, but little more than 25 per cent will attend a church service.

(3) Further into Chinatown there are more traditional market-type shops, including fishmongers with plastic buckets of eels, poulterers with flattened ducks and grocers with rambutans, lychees and other tropical Asian fruits.

(4) Since organic poulterers don't use artificial light to force their hens to keep laying, you can boost their income by buying their high-summer egg surplus - and using them in this wonderful dish.

(5) There were country folk and lecturers, dentists and poulterers , a hairdresser from Cardiff and a poet from Cheltenham.