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An animal rights charity has called on Leicestershire County Council to strike Pork Pie Way off a list of potential names for Melton Mowbray's new bypass, branding the suggestion "pig-demeaning".

The Reform UK-run authority ran a public vote, which ended at midnight on Tuesday, to decide the name of the 4.4-mile (7.1km) route around the north and east of the town.

Pork Pie Way is on a shortlist of names because the pies are a speciality of the town's butchers, but the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has written to council leader Dan Harrison urging him to choose Vegan Pie Way instead.