Wiltshire TV presenter Paul Martin was on hand to open a nature trail at a farm shop near Atworth.

Mr Martin, who lives in Seend and is the star of BBC antiques show Flog It! said he often visits Neston Park Farm Shop, off the A365, to buy food and was planning to go for a meal at the venue today with his family on Mother’s Day.

After cutting the official ribbon at the start of the trail on Thursday, which is on land next to the farm shop in Atworth, Mr Martin was joined by shop owner Lady Venetia Fuller, and children from Heywood School in Corsham and Broughton Gifford Primary School in Melksham.

Visitors, including North Wiltshire MP James Gray, were treated to Champagne and canapes.

Mr Martin said: “There are lots of trees to identify on the trail in their living organic forms, you can just embrace the wildlife.

“I’m a regular customer here and I eat here all the time. It’s taken Neston Park into a different dimension.”

The nature trail itself is around 1km long and is free to customers, taking them through a small wood, past a pond and into a wild organic meadow.

There will be an Easter egg hunt along the trail from Saturday, April 4 until Sunday, April 19.

The farm shop opened in November 2006 as partnership between Lady Fuller, who is married to Sir James Fuller, and businessman Martin Still, who previously ran the Pear Tree pub in Whitley.