Top chefs cook up treats for visitors

Rosemary Shrager, known to most from her appearances on Ladette to Lady and the Alan Titchmarsh Show, made her debut at last year's show and proved so popular she was invited back along.

She was joined by several other top chefs, many with Michelin stars to their name, in the Game Cookery Theatre, where fresh ideas for cooking were demonstrated via a video link up live in on the showground.

Mrs Shrager made efforts to demonstrate the versatility and quality of home-grown Yorkshire produce by cooking it in a series of every-day meals.

Earlier at the show she had arrived at the Discovery Zone to meet pupils from a West Yorkshire school who had worked to design and make a British wildflowers using recycled products.

She presented pupils from Hawksworth C of E Primary School, near Guiseley, with a plaque for a couple of school benches which will be used in their school gardens.

School administrator Linda Hartley said: "We are a very small school with just 96 pupils, but they all put in a great deal of effort and are delighted to have won this prize.

Also appearing at the cookery theatre was Robert Ramsden, who created a series of stunning dishes from the larder at Deli Fresh, Bradford.

The theatre is part of the Country Pursuits area which showcases several aspects of rural life.

This included displays of birds of prey from falconer Ben Potter, ferreter Simon Whitehead and flycasting by Roger Beck. The British Deer Society was also in attendance and visitors even got a class in gun safety from Chris Green.

The Mount Grace Gundogs of Northallerton were put through their paces by trainer Les Dixon, who also demonstrated how springer spaniels and labradors can work together.