HAWES. - Tues. Fwd: 34 calves, 1,867 sheep. Christmas show for calves, judge R Rutherford, Durham.

Prizes. - The champion receiving the Raymond Jackson Challenge Trophy was a Lim X bull from Messrs Handley, Sedbergh, to £228 for R Rutherford, Durham. Reserve champion was a BAX bull from D J & S Stainton, Sedbergh for £208.

Prices. - Lim bulls to £256 av £157; hfrs to £136 av £96; BBX bulls to £255 av £248.50; BAX bulls to £220 av £212; Fr bulls to £250 av £87.93.

Lambs lt to 100p av 87.5p; std to 110.3p av 94.4p; med to 108.8p av 102.4p; heavy to 103.2p av 101.3p, overall av 98.6p. Store lambs: Mules to £34; horned to £18.20 av £17.27. Cast ewes: horned to £29 av £18.18; polled to £45 av £32.04. Cast rams, horned to £32.50 av £23.04; polled to £53.50 av £33.12.

KIRKBY STEPHEN. - Tues. Christmas show and sale. Fwd: 12 cattle, 2,603 lambs and cast sheep.

Prizes. - Judge Jeff Nutter of Fence, Burnley, awarded the Raymond Brown Memorial Cup for the champion beast, £10 donated by J & D Haigh and the Kirkby Stephen Tradesman Cup for the 1st prize heifer to Messrs AD & A Richardson, Low Bank End, Appleby whose Lim hfr sold for 230p/kg to Norman Park, Carlisle. Reserve went to a Lim blk presented by Messrs Sowerby, Terrys Farm, Ormside sold for 162p to R I Brown, butcher of Kirkby Stephen. GN Robinson Memorial Cup, beast from vendor within 6 miles of the mart, HW Birbeck, Castle Hill, Soulby, whose BB X hfr sold for 160p to N & J Dowding, butcher, The Arcade, Appleby.

In the sheep show, the class for Texel lambs 35 kg and over was sponsored by the Solway & Tyne Texel Breeders Club and 1st prize was awarded to GE Hunter, Beck Houses, Grayrigg, which later were awarded the Croglin Castle Perpetual Cup for the champion pen of lambs 35kg or over and sold for £68 per head to GA Slack, Hilton, Appleby; 2 M Watson, Blandswath, sold for £53.50, weighing 42 kg. Suffolk lambs: 1 FC Millican, Low Moor. Mule lambs: 1 HW & MA Alderson, Howgill Grange; 2 JB & GE Luck & Son, Milestone House. Horned lambs: 1 MM & EA Robinson, Low Farm; 2 HW & MA Alderson, Howgill Grange.

Lambs to 34 kg. - Texel X: 1 N & C Richards, Woodfoot Farm; 2 TB Capstick, Murthwaite. Horned: 1 MM & EA Robinson; 2 Raine & Davidson, Thorneygale. Polled ewes: 1 JW Little, Row End; 2 JL Potter, Long Marton. Horned ewes: 1 JL Potter, Long Marton; 2 B Hogg, Murton.

Prices. - Cattle - Lim hfrs 230p Low Bank End; 120p, 114p, 111p Trainriggs; 112p Blandswath,;104p, 98p Row End. Lim blks 162p Terrys Farm. BB hfrs 160p, 135p Castle Hill; 150p, Row End; 129p Blandwath.

Sheep - Lambs 35kg or over: Texel £68, £58 Beck Houses; £60.50, £56, £55 Third Sunbiggin; £57 Coach & Horses; £54.50 Well House (Dargue); £53.50 Blandswath; £51 Hartley Castle; £52.50 Lummas House. Beltex £48 Buckles Farm. Charolais £48 Starrah Farm. Suffolk £48.50 Hartley Castle; £48 Low Moor & Coach & Horses; £46.50 Starrah Farm. Mule £50.50 Whitewall (Hill); £48.20 Howgill Grange; £48 High Stennerskeugh (A & JW Birbeck); £46.50 High Stennerskeugh, (CR Birbeck); £46 Milestone House; £45.50 Stennerskeugh. Swaledale £46 Howgill Grange; £43.50 Barras; £40.80 Hartley Castle; £40.50 Low Farm; £39 Low Oxnop; £38.80 West Stonesdale. Rough Fell, £40.80, £39.50, £36.50 Hole House; £38.80 Thursgill Farm; £36.80 Beckfoot Farm. BFL £47.80 Whitewall (Hill); £48.50 Hartley Castle.

PATELEY BRIDGE. - Sat. Fwd: 64 store cattle. Christmas show and sale of beef store cattle. The judge Mr David Mawer of Grewelthorpe awarded prizes as follows:

Prizes and prices. - Pair of steers: 1 S Church, Lofthouse, 2 Lim, £675 to Mr Fawcett; 2 All Firth, Middlesmoor, 2 Chars £644 to R Broderick; 3 TB Martin, Heathfield, 2 Lim £552 to R Broderick. Pair hfrs: D&R T Leeming, Ramsgill, 2 Lim £528 to S White; 2 Mrs A H Firth, Middlesmoor, 2 Char £499 to Mr Fawcett; 3 D&R T Leeming, Ramsgill, 2 Lim £510 to S White