Tuesday May 19. Weekly sale of livestock. Froward: 300 spring lambs, 100 prime hoggs, 100 cast ewes and rams, 9 steers 215 store cattle. Prices, Spring Lambs: Suffolk 242.5 pence per kilogram (average 198.07p) for pen of 40kg, purchased by M/s Irving Quality Butchers. Prime Hoggs: Suffolk cross 181.82 (average 171.45p) for pen of 44kg, Dunbia Preston; Cast Ewes and Rams: Charolais cross Ram to £147, Lancashire Direct. Prime Cattle: British Blue Steer 218p (199.17), S. Mason & Sons. Store Cattle: Holstein Friesian to £930, (635).

ALSO: Tuesday, May 12. Show and sale of ewes and hoggs and weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 155 prime lambs, 450 ewes and hoggs with lambs at foot. Show. Judge: G. Cooper. Results, Pen 5 Continental hoggs with lambs at foot: 1,2&3 SG Benson. Pen 5 Mule hoggs with lambs at foot: 1,2&3 AR Edmondson. Pen 5 Ewes with lambs at foot: 1 I Wilson; 2 A&B Wilson; 3 V&S Inman. Champion: Phizacklea Trophy, AR Edmondson. Reserve Champion: SG Benson. Prices - Prime Cattle, Steers: Blonde d’Aquitaine 204 pence per kilogram, (average 188p), purchased by S. Mason & Sons. Prime Lambs: Texel 240.20 pence per kilogram (219.28p), for pen of 40.8kg, purchased by Lancashire Direct; Charolais Lambs to £100, Irvings Quality Butchers. Prime Hoggs: Beltex cross lambs to 195.98 (186), A. Dawson; Texel to £92 each, T. Postlethwaite & Co. Cast Ewes & Rams: Texel to £148 each, Lancashire Direct; Mules 96, Lancashire Direct, Andrew Thompson; Swaledale 83, Lancashire Direct; Herdwick 78, Lancashire Direct, Andrew Thompson.