HAWES, Monday and Tuesday, September 13 and 14. The biggest sale of breeding sheep in the country which attracted a large contingent of buyers from all parts of the UK effecting an almost total clearance of Gimmer lambs. Great Annual Prize Show and sale of Mule gimmer lambs on behalf of The North of England Mule Sheep Association. Forward: Monday 15,313 Mule gimmer lambs; Tuesday 11,818. Overall 27,131.

Results. Monday. Mule gimmer lambs: 1 W.C. Porter & Son, Reeth, £100 to C. Hutchinson, Kirkby Wiske; 2 D.A. & M.A. Brown & Son, Coverdale, £116 to M. Brown, Newton-le-Willows; 3 R.A. Busby & Son, Marrick, £140 to S. Hudson, Derbyshire. Prices to £192 (average £65.27). Results. Tuesday: 1 T. Ayrton & Son, Over Wyresdale, £180 to R. Heigh, Bentham; 2 G. Rawsthorne, Nether Kellet, £320 to R. Wilson, Armathwaite; 3 R. & P.E. Hargreaves & Sons, £130 to W.I. Grainger, Penrith.

Prices to £320 (£66.91). Overall average £66.

LANCASTER, Monday, September 13. Forward: 110 cattle; 79 young bulls; 2,511 sheep; 129 ewes and rams.

Prices cattle: light steers to 109.5 pence per kilo (average 88p); medium 121.5p (95.7p); heavy 111.5p (96.8p). Light heifers 98.5p (98.5p); medium 115.5p (95.6p); heavy 134.5p (98.5p). Young bulls: light 90.5p (82.4p); medium 116.5p (97p); heavy 112.5p (110p).

New season lambs: light 101.6p (101.6p); standard 115.7p (106.6p); medium 119.3p (107.2p); heavy 104.3p (100.1p). Ewes £49 each (£31.92).

ALSO, Lancaster, Friday, September 10. Forward: 341 bullocks/heifers; 48 calves; 293 store and feeding sheep.

Prices bullocks: Simmental £670; Belgian Blue £720; Aberdeen Angus £700; Charolais £675; Limousin £725. Heifers: Simmental £500; Belgian Blue £450; Aberdeen Angus £500; Limousin £510. Calves: bulls to £205; heifers £152. Store and feeding sheep: Texel ewes £46; Suffolk lambs £40; Texel £40.

KIRKBY Stephen, Tuesday, September 14. Forward: 3,593 sheep including 682 ewes and rams.

Prices lambs more than 35 kilos: Swaledale to £25; Texel cross £57.50; Rough Fell £42; Mule £48; Cheviot cross £43.50; Lleyn £44.50; Suffolk cross £49.50; Masham £41.50; Beltex cross £51.50; Charollais cross £48.20. To 35 kilos: Swaledale £29.20; Texel cross £37; Cheviot cross £34.80; Rough Fell £27. Ewes: Cheviot £28.50; Texel cross £43.50; Rough Fell £25.50; Swaledale £25.50; Herdwick £23; Mule £33; Suffolk cross £39.50. Rams: Rough Fell £24; Swaledale £24; Cheviot £20.50; Blackface £30; Herdwick £19.20.

ALSO, Kirkby Stephen, Friday, September 10. Annual Prize Show and sale of North of England Mule Sheep Association gimmer lambs. Forward: 10,379 mule gimmer lambs; and 124 shearlings.

Results. Mule gimmer lambs open to all vendors: 1 & overall champion Messrs Lord, West Dowgill, £240 to J. Sedgewick; 2 Reserve champion Messrs H.R. Hayton & Son, Asby Grange, £200 to A.M. & H.V. Brown; 3 W.M. Hutchinson & Sons, Redgate, £175 to Mr M. Allen. Exhibitors of no more than 200 lambs and Kirkby Stephen NEMSA branch members only: 1 Messrs Jenkinson, Whingill, £112 to Messrs Capstick; 2 W.M. Heron & Sons, High Green, £97 to Messrs Lawson; 3 I.H. & J. Brown, Oak House, £95 to J.W. Little. Prices Mule shearlings £78; gimmer lambs to £240.

PENRITH, Monday, September 13. Forward: 510 store cattle comprising 432 bullocks/heifers; 60 bulls; and 18 rearing calves. Prices Limousin cross bullocks to £760; Blonde d'Aquitaine cross £578; Simmental cross £668; Belgian Blue cross £725; Hereford cross £560; Charolais cross £735; Aberdeen Angus cross £635; MRI cross £558; Friesian £485; Saler cross £512. Limousin cross heifers £675; Simmental cross £518; Charolais £460; Hereford £498; Aberdeen Angus cross £472; Blonde d'Aquitaine cross £538. Limousin cross bulls £610; MRI cross £378; Belgian Blue £498; Holstein £398; Friesian £318.

Belgian Blue bull rearing calves £220. Belgian Blue heifers £158; Friesian bulls £82.