Award-winning Manchester-based Betty & Butch have clinched another first by becoming the first UK pet shop to be recognised at the nationwide Greatest Christmas Awards. 

The store, voted UK Pet Retailer of 2014 in the PetQuip awards in September, clinched a Special Greatest Christmas Award for its Santa Paws Grotto.

The Greatest Christmas Awards, organised by Garden Trade News and Garden Radio, were presented in Harrogate on Sunday, and it's the first time a pet shop has collected an award.

Trevor Pfeiffer, managing director of Garden Trade News, said: "The judges insisted on making a Special Grotto Award to a pet shop who are developing a new trend - Sants Paws. Betty & Butch have even appeared on Blue Peter this year with the pet grotto."