A CATERER has been forced to remove her daughter's name from her products after a complaint from a tea room company.

Seven-year-old Betty Guy is said to be far from impressed her name will no longer be associated with the range of children's frozen meals.

Elizabeth Guy, from Wensleydale Foods, in Hawes, North Yorkshire, has renamed Betty Guy's Little Pies as Beth Guy's Little Pies.

The step was taken after Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms complained that use of the name Betty would confuse its customers.

Mrs Guy said: "Betty is none too thrilled about this development as it's no longer using her name.

"However, I have pointed out that it is still her face on the packaging."

The rebranding has cost the firm an estimated £15,000.

But Mrs Guy said: "I've got no grudge against Bettys. If anything, it was my own naivety that I didn't check that we could use the name."

The firm will launch the new name at the Food and Drink Expo, at the National Exhibition Centre, in Birmingham, this weekend.

She was alerted to problems with the name last year when Wensleydale Foods applied to register Betty Guy's Little Pies as a trademark.

The company wrote to Bettys and Taylors Group Limited, asking if they objected.

The firm replied saying they did and asked that the name be changed.

Mrs Guy was told she would be unlikely to win if the case went to court.

One option would have been to use one of her other two daughters' names.

But nine-year-old Susie already has a range of puddings named after her.

And Mrs Guy's older daughter, 14-year-old Emily, refused on the grounds that it would do nothing for her "street-cred".

The company has just secured its first major contract with supermarket group, Budgens.