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If music be the food of love, then grab a plate and tuck in to this.

Linda McCartney Foods is running a competition to win a pair of tickets to see Paul McCartney play live at the 2010 Isle of Wight Festival.

Four lucky winners will each receive a pair of tickets to the festival from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th June and get to see Meat Free Monday founder Paul McCartney headline on the Sunday evening.

The offer - and food - is only available to UK residents at the moment, but it is rather a huge consolation to know that the team at Linda McCartney Foods is working on taking the range international in the near future.

For your chance to win tickets to see Paul at the Isle of Wight Festival, click here

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If you're looking to cut down on your meat intake for health as well as environmental reasons, then you might be wise to start with the sausages.

A new study has found that processed meats such as sausages are twice as likely to increase the likelihood of heart disease than red meat.

Scientists at Harvard have discovered too that as little as 50g of processed meat a day increases the risk of developing diabetes.

Processed meat includes sausages, bacon, salami – any meat that has been preserved by smoking, curing or salting.

The study, published in the journal Circulation, suggests that salt and preservatives may explain the disparity between processed and red meat, given that both contain the same amount of cholesterol and saturated fat.

Researchers found that an average daily serving of processed meat – one sausage or a couple of bacon rashers – increased the risk of coronary heart disease by 42 per cent and diabetes by 19 per cent.

More than one million people from 10 countries took part in the trial, run by the Harvard School of Public Heatlth.

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