Glorious Day for Northumberland County Show

The sun shone brightly on over 28,000 visitors to the Northumberland County Show on Spring Bank Holiday Monday. With the highest attendance recorded at the Bywell site since the show moved there in 2013, the organisers were feeling justly proud of their achievements.

One happy visitor was Ian Murray, from Wooler. He and his father, Fred Murray, have been competing in the Youngs RPS Sheep Section for twenty years, selecting entries from the best of their 120-strong flock of purebred Texels. Ian was ‘Chuffed to bits!’ with his clutch of trophies for Male Champion Texel and Reserve, Female Champion, Group of Three and the Interbreed Championship, but the icing on the cake was when his gimmer was selected as The Champion of Champions.

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