It certainly is cool to hang with the meat

It's days like yesterday that make Bruce France glad he's a butcher.
While the mercury soars he and his staff chill out in the Fenton St Mad Butcher store.
Meat packers and butchers work with a constant temperature of 12C and a chiller of 3C.
"Some of the staff feel the cold and wear sweatshirts but I find it all right," Mr France said.
"It's good when it's a hot day - quite refreshing. You step outside and it's like opening an oven door."
Mr France has been a butcher for 25 years. He said he had acclimatised in that time to working in the 12C cool.
"You think how cold it is here now but in August and September you wish you had another job. You try to think of what else you could do.
"But at least here in summer you're cool - if you're stuck outside, like a builder, you can't do much about it.
"In winter it's warmer in here than outside."
There are 25 staff at the Fenton St store and the majority work in the chilled room out the back, cutting the meat and packing it.
Mr France said he found the key to not getting too cold was to keep on the move.
"A lot of the girls get cold because they're in one position meat packing," Mr France said.