THE world's oldest meat market held its final Christmas meat auction before its closure. People gathered at Smithfield meat market near Farringdon on Christmas Eve to get a last chance to stock-up ...

Surplus stock from traders at Smithfield meat market has been auctioned off on Christmas Eve. Customers queued from the early morning for the best position at the Harts of Smithfield meat auction ...

It’s a tradition that recedes further back into the blood-mists of the Middle Ages than the Tower of London – but not for much longer It was the Monday before Christmas when Smithfield meat ...