Some 3443 store lambs were sold through C and D Auction Marts' Longtown Centre on Tuesday, where a top price of £94 per head was achieved for the champion of lambs

The event, which included a show and sale of lowland-bred lambs, judged by Messrs Tindale, Paradise Farm, Co Durham, saw pens of 20 Beltex lambs from TR and EA Millburn, Wallend, secure both the champion and reserve honours before selling for £94 and £89, respectively.

LEADING awards

Pens of 20 – Tex X – 1, JF Latimer, Chapel House £74.50; 2, JG and C Tailford, Rinnion Hills £70.50; 3, TN Cavers and Co, Sorbie £64.50.

Suffolk X – 1, J Anderson-Roskell, Raggithwaite £83; 2, W Jones, High Bellochantuy £60.50.

Belt X – 1 and 2 and champion and reserve, TR and EA Milburn, Wallend £94 and £89; 3, ML and LB Bell, Winterhope £72.

LEADING prices

Store lambs – Belt – £94, £89, £77 Wallend. Suff – £83, £76, £70.50 Raggithwaite. Tex – £77 Kilberry; £74.50 Chapel House; £72, £70.50, £70 Rinnion Hills. Chev – £74, £69.50, £66.50 Kilberry; £51 Escart. Char – £70 Wallend; £68 The Flatt. Cross – £62 High Ramshaw; £61 Keppoch; £56.50 Softley. Chev Mule – £60 Broadmea; £59.50, £58.50 Gillesbie. NCC – £58.50 Gillesbie; £55 Courstein. BF – £55 Carnasserie and Fallowlees.