BOLTON bakery chain Sayers has announced the launch of a new left-handed sandwich.

The butty, which has been specially designed to fit more comfortably in the left hand, goes on sale in the town for the first time from today, April 1.

Bakery bosses say the sandwich design will result in fewer embarrassing filling “spills” for left-handed sandwich lovers.

The popular Cheese Ploughman’s sandwich is the first of Sayers new range of sarnies to be re-designed specifically for left-handed customers.

The new left-handed butty will have all the ingredients rotated 180 degrees, redistributing the weight of the sandwich, so that the bulk of them skew to the left. The packaging has also been altered so that the door now opens to the left.

The Sidney Street company’s Head Sandwich maker said: "We have been baking delicious breads, cakes and pies for over 100 years and are always looking at extra ways to make our customer’s day better. Being left handed myself I am only too aware of the pitfalls of living in a right handed world.

“Depending on how well the left-handed sandwich goes down we may look at mirroring this across our whole range and producing left-handed doughnuts.”