Ewe lambs sold to £530 at a sale of Swaledale females at Hawes where the entry of 590 gimmers and 2981 ewe lambs averaged £135.40 and £85.28 respectively.

Geoff and Carole Marwood, Hill Top, Barningham, sold the lead priced pen at £530 to S and D Robinson, Foredale, with gimmers selling to £420 from G Calvert and Sons, Hoggarths, who also sold the first prize pen at £280.

The first prize ewe lambs from D and EM and ID Brown, Lummas House, made £180

LEADING prices

Gimmers – G Calvert and Sons, £420, £290, £280 x2, £260; Owlands Farm, £192, £145; WH Harker, £182; Hilborough Farms Ltd, £162 x2, £160 x2, £145, £140; EW Atkinson, £160; JC and E Pedley and Sons, £142; G and G Schofield, £142.

Ewe lambs – G and C Marwood £530, £180 x2; MM and CL Whitehead, £360; RS Harker and Son, £220, £150 x2, £140, £130; MR and LE Rukin, £185, £130; D and EM and ID Brown, £180; JS Cloughton, £160, £128; JW Porter and Sons, £160; JR and SL Pratt, £150; MR Ewbank, £150; S and D Robinson, £148; JR Rukin, £145, £142; B Thornborrow, £132; ME Allinson, £130; G Harker and Son, £128; H and EM Tiplady, £128.