Region part of year in pictures

YORKSHIRE scores three entries in the 2012 Farming In Focus calendar from the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution and the picture at the right is one – judging of dairy cattle at the Great Yorkshire Show in 2010, by Adrian Legge.
By The Newsroom
Published 8th Aug 2011, 01:00 BST

See www.rabi.org.uk or call 01865 724931 to order copies of the calendar.

This week’s big Yorkshire show was at Thornton-le-Dale near Pickering, where a scorching day ended in a cloudburst which cut some events short but the crowd before that looked like a record of around 12,000.

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Best sheep in show was a Suffolk from David Aconley of West Knapton, near Malton.

Bakewell Show was in progress as these pages went to press.

Today is show day at:

* Tockwith, between Harrogate and York - YO26 7QH.

* Emley, near Harrogate - HD8 9TE.

* Osmotherley, near Northallerton - DL6 3PY.

Tomorrow is the turn of Sykehouse, near Goole; Wednesday is Danby Show, near Whitby.

Next Saturday is Halifax Show; and next Sunday is Ripley Show, near Harrogate.

Calendar for the rest of August is: 20: Gargrave, near Skipton; 20: Rosedale, near Whitby; 21: Mirfield, near Dewsbury; 24: Egton, near Whitby; 27: Bilsdale, between Helmsley and Stokesley; 27: Wensleydale, at Bellerby, near Leyburn; 27: Malhamdale, at Malham, near Settle; 29: Burniston & District, near Scarborough; 29: Farndale, near Kirkbymoorside; 29: North of England Pony Show, Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate; 29: Epworth, near Doncaster; 30: Kilnsey, near Grassington; 31: Reeth, near Richmond.

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SEPTEMBER: 3: Lealholm, near Whitby; 3: Keighley; 10: Penistone; 17: Stokesley; 19: Nidderdale, at Pateley Bridge; 24-25: Masham Sheep Fair.

OCTOBER: 22-23 Countryside Live at Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate.

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