THE Great Yorkshire Show ended with organisers saying the event had been a resounding success.

An estimated 125,000 people passed through the gates over the three days.

Entries in the competitive classes were the second highest in the event's 146-year history.

The 3,203 livestock entries were the highest ever recorded.

Honorary show director Christopher Hall said: " It has been an enormously successful show and lovely to see the agricultural industry in good heart, even if it is still a very difficult time when everybody gets back to their farms.

"The figures are absolutely tremendous and underlines the fact that the Great Yorkshire Show is a premier date in the farming calendar and hopefully that the industry recovers.

"We pride ourselves on being a shop window of agricultural excellence for both farmers and for those who have little contact year round with the countryside.

Visitors included MP Ben Bradshaw, Minister for Nature Conservation, who saw the Limestone County Project. The scheme is introducing rational grazing regimes of special scientific interest.

He said: "Its a beautiful showground and we are lucky to have one with so many permanent structures."

Other visitors included 12 children who live near to the site of the Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union.