A YORK ice cream manufacturer is celebrating after winning a specialist national award for the second year.

Acaster Malbis-based Yorvale has seen its Panna Cotta and Apricot ice cream judged as the winner in the Ice Cream Category of the Taste of Excellence Award in Dairy at The Cream Awards, the annual Dairy Industry Trade Awards.

Yorvale beat stiff competition from Belton Cheese and Burt's Cheese to win the prize at a Gala Dinner at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham.

Director Lesley Buxton said: "We're so pleased to have won this award again and it just goes to show that smaller producers can compete with bigger companies when it comes to product quality.

"We are a small, farm-based family business and we're very proud of our team for helping us to win this award."

Yorvale's range of dairy ice cream, Yoryog and sorbets are available nationwide via selected wholesalers and from farm shops, independent retailers, Waitrose, Booths, Asda, Tesco and Morrisons throughout Yorkshire.