Monday, May 18. Annual new Fair Sale of Beef Breeding Cattle sale and second May sale of store cattle. Show. Judge: S. Nelson. Sponsor: CT Hayton Ltd, Agricultural Engineers. Results - Heifer with Calf at foot: 1x GP Taylor & Sons; 2 A&CL Bell. Cow with Calf at foot: 1&Champion GP Taylor; 2&3 TD Robinson. Prices - With Calves at foot, Cows: Limousin to £3,200 each; British Blue 2,550. Heifers: Limousin 2,500; British Blue 2,200; Blonde d’Aquitaine 2,150. Store Cattle, Bullocks: Limousin 975; British Blue 975; Charolais 835. Heifers: Limousin 1,055; British Blue 885. Charolais 815.

ALSO: Thursday, May 14. Annual new fair show and sale of breeding sheep. Forward: 1,507. Show. Judges: S. Longrigg, Mule and Continental hoggs; J. Stainton, Swaledale. Sponsors: Laurence Pierce (Wool Merchants) and Pendragon Vets. Results: Champion M/s Kendal, pen of 5 Texel cross hoggs with Beltex cross lambs at foot; Champion M/s Allan, pen of 5 Swaledale ewes with twin Mule lambs at foot. 10 Mule hoggs with lambs: 1 Winter Bros; 2 PM Kidd. 5 Continental cross hoggs with lambs: 1&2 CA & JG Skidmore; 3 JE Lancaster. 5 Swaledale ewes with lambs: 1&2 PG Sayer; 3 BI Armstrong. Prices - Hoggs with single lambs: Mule to £130 each; Texel 100; Suffolk 80. Shearlings with lambs, twins: Texel 77; Mule 76. Singles: Mule 77; Ewes with lambs, twins: Texel 75; Swaledale 76; Mule 70. Singles: Texel 76; Mule 72; Geld hoggs: Mule 128.

ALSO: Tuesday, May 12. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 1,232 prime hoggs, 359 cast ewes and rams, 50 ewes with lambs at foot, 100 spring lambs. Prices - Prime Lambs: Beltex to £106 each, or 252.4 pence per kilogram; Texel 101.80, 220; Dutch Texel 99, 241.50; Suffolk 91.30. Prime Hoggs: Suffolk 120; Charollais 115.80; Texel 110.30; Swaledale 87.30; Cheviot 80.30. Cast Ewes: Texel 140; Suffolk 116.50; Blueface Leicester 110.50; Beltex 110; Mule 108.50; Swaledale 94.50; Dorset 92.50; Rough Fell 81.50. Cast Rams: Texel 126.50; Swaledale 80. Breeding Sheep: Shearlings: Texel twins 68. Ewes, with twins, correct below: Mule 55; Texel 51.