A KIRKBY Lonsdale market is in desperate need of more producers with its current stallholders unable to keep up with buyer demand.

Ann Booth is one of the three remaining stallholders who sell cakes and other baked goods at the weekly Thursday event.

Taking place in the Lunesdale Hall between 10am-midday, the country market offers handcrafted goods as well as food.

However, Ann says that the market needs more food producers to serve the market’s hungry customers.

“We get 80 people in the first half hour,” she explained. “And we are just cleared out, we cannot produce enough to keep the market going all morning.

“People are coming in and I think they are thinking: ‘What is that all about, why is it so well advertised and there’s nothing here?’”

She said that she would really encourage others to take part in what is a ‘community’ event.

“We have tea, coffee and toasted tea cakes,” she said. “A great many people get together and we are serving a whole range of people but particularly the elderly - ladies who are no longer baking themselves..

She said that the market offers a ‘personal service’ as well as a high standard of produce for a ‘reasonable price’.

Anybody who would like to offer their bread, cakes, jams, preserves or other produce should get in touch with Ann on 07581-452329.