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Ester Pink, right, at the pasty museum in Mexico with fellow student >Ambra Carai

Natasha Carr, Dewsbury, West Yorks De TH Gr ta Wg THE nation got behind Greggs and the pasty tax was abolished.

The policy change from Chancellor George Osborne's Budget in March - when the so called pasty tax was introduced - will mean that food left to cool naturally will only be charged VAT at 5% rather the planned 20% which was to be introduced from October.

* The term "pasty" is an English word for a pie, of venison or other meat, baked without a dish.

The application of VAT to currently exempt baked to cool categories (sausage rolls, Cornish pasties etc) went relatively unnoticed in the budget itself, but when George Osbourne admitted he couldn't recall the last time he ate a pasty it suddenly became a battle of the classes.

THE aroma of freshly baked pastry wafts through air thick with anger at the biggest pasty factory in Britain.

Everyone else in Westminster seemed hell-bent on embarrassing themselves by being photographed buying pasties, eating pasties, tweeting about pasties or digging up old campaign-trail photographs of themselves to prove they've always been the pasty's biggest fan.

UPPER-CRUST Tory Gideon Osborne surprised nobody yesterday by revealing he cannot remember the last time he bought a pasty in Greggs.

Summary: Greggs boss accuses George Osborne of being "out of touch" after admitting he could not remember the last time he bought a pasty there.

A CAMPAIGN has been launched to oppose a proposed "pasty tax" which could see the cost of Cornwall's favourite food rise by 20 per cent.

WE compared a Ginsters Cornish Pasty with one from Menai Deli at Ysbyty Gwynedd, made by Becws Dwyran bakery.

London, Aug 21 (ANI): A team of bakers in Britain has created the world's biggest Cornish pasty that weighs nearly a ton.

Even today, when the Cornish rugby team takes on a big opponent, a giant Cornish pasty is symbolically hoisted over the bar.

But one of the currently unanswered questions concerns the identity of the mystery Cornish pasty fetishist.

He added: "Lurgan Champagne Pasty is one idea to see some other suggestions."