Thank God they're almost finished

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 1:54 PM | add or read comments (0)

PHEW! The agricultural shows are almost at an end, bar Cerrigydrudion, and I’ll not be sorry to see them finish. I report on around a dozen each season, including the four-day Royal Welsh, and by the end of every summer I begin to suffer main ring fatigue.

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FMD fear and confusion dominates show

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 12:09 PM | add or read comments (0)

AT 9.30pm on Friday Graham Arthan finally returned home from Oswestry showground and poured himself a celebratory glass of wine.

“We’d finished all the preparations and we were all set for a good show,” said the event’s chairman.

“Other shows, such as Guilsfield and Bishop’s Castle, had been cancelled because of the rain. But we had pressed ahead with ours and the ground had dried out nicely.”

Before he’d finished his first glass, the home phone started ringing. Graham’s wife answered: she almost dropped the receiver.

Foot-and-mouth was back in Britain.

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