The sixth annual Countryside Alliance Awards are now open to public nomination, and Neil Parish MP is urging the local community to get nominating.Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has pledged his support for The Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the ‘Rural Oscars’.The Rural Oscars were borne of a need to support and promote rural communities. They celebrate people going the extra country mile to ensure that the rural Britain’s food and farming industry, small businesses, traditional skills, forward-thinking enterprises and, most of all, its people, can flourish. Neil Parish MP commented: “These Awards are an excellent way to promote the local businessmen and women who are working hard to keep rural Britain ticking. Our local produce is second to none and there are many community heroes and businesses worthy of national recognition, so please get involved and nominate today. There are many talented, rural entrepreneurs in my Constituency of Tiverton and Honiton and we produce world local produce and I hope that we can bring a British title home.”Previous award winning rural businesses in Tiverton and Honiton include the 2009 winner and reigning South West Daily Telegraph Traditional Business Award holders Complete Meats, from Axminster, and the 2008 winners of the South West Enterprise Award; Harriett and Peter Greig of Pipers Farm, Cullompton.The Awards run across the following eight categories:1. Local food Award2. Village shop/Post Office Award3. Enterprise Award4. The Daily Telegraph Traditional Business Award5. Butcher Award6. Hunter Rural Hero (16 and over)7. Hunter Rural Hero (15 and under)8. Grassroots Award for the Countryside Alliance member who has done most to advance rural campaigning in 2010. Nominations are open online at www.countrysideallianceawards.co.uk between Monday 6th September and Friday 22nd October