FARMERS are notoriously sound sleepers but I have to say that Anglesey's Rowena Rowlands’ performance at the Royal Welsh Show, recently, in Builth Wells, takes the biscuit.

Apparently some boisterous youngsters thought it would be a merry jape to set a trailer loaded with straw on fire not far from where Rowena and her husband, Dyfed, were billeted in their caravan. Dyfed had earlier judged one of the biggest sheep sections at the show, the Black Welsh Mountain.

It all duly turned into a serious conflagration, including multiple explosions when the tyres and the air-brakes went off due to the intense heat. Meanwhile, just a few feet away, Rowena was blissfully unaware that her little caravan was next to a major fire, with seven fire appliances in attendance, plus the local police and many show stewards.

Her charred caravan rear end was testament just how close she was. Luckily it all ended well – except for the miscreants who set the fire. They have, quite rightly, been arrested and face a long-term ban from the showground.