HEXHAM. - Last Fri. Fwd: 495 hoggs, gimmers & ewes with lambs at foot for special catalogued sale.

Prices. - Mule gimmers & twins: £126, £109, £105 The Fawns; £125, £123 Taylor Burn; £108 Edges Green. With singles: £120 East Fourstones. With triplets: £130 Taylor Burn. Mule hoggs & singles: £110 Partridge Nest; £96 Elf Hills. With twins: £118 Elf Hills. Suff X hoggs & twins: £124 Brandon Hall, With singles: £112, £109, £105, £100 Brandon Hall; £106 South Farm. Suff X gimmers & twins: £119 Snabdough. Texel X hoggs & singles: £107 Brandon Hall; £104 Hallington Newhouses. Texel x gimmers & twins: £118 Taylor Burn. Cheviot gimmers & singles: £86 Newbiggin Hill. Mule ewes (FW) & twins £110 East Fourstones; £104 Wayn Riggs; £102 Cornhills; £92 Whiteside; £90 Bullions. Blackface ewes & singles: £52 Wayn Riggs. Swale ewes & singles: £40 Tilery. Blackface ewe hoggs: £45, £44.50 Featherwood; £44.50, £39.50 Dudlees.

KIRKBY STEPHEN. - Mon. Annual farm machinery & implement sale.

Prices. - stone gate stoups £80; stone trough £120; lamb creep £120; haybob £400; MF baler £400.

PENRITH. - Tues. New Fair show & sale of breeding & store sheep. Fwd: 2,189 Mule hoggs, ewes & shlgs with 3226 lambs at foot, 1,023 Mule geld gimmer hoggs. Judge: Barry Brass, Low Row. M&JM Kennedy "Wayside" Challenge Trophy for champion pen of 10 Mule hoggs with Suff-sired lambs at foot: Winter Bros, Clickham Farm, £80 to the judge.

Prizes. Mule hoggs & Suff-sired lambs: 1 & champion Winter Bros; 2 S Blenkharn, Rimmington Way. Mule hoggs & Cont-sired lambs: 1 Watson, Blandswath.

Prices . - Mule hoggs & singles: £80 Clickham Farm; £70 Birks (Atkinson), Low Moor (Millican); £68 Rimmington Way; £65 Terrys Farm; £60 Blandswath; £59 Briggle, The Green. With doubles: £52 Clickham Farm; £47.50 Birks (Atkinson); £45 The Green; £44 Terry's Farm. Mule shlgs & singles: £54 Low Moor Dyke; £49.50 Low Rutter. With doubles: £47 Birks (Atkinson), Hallgarth; £46.50 Low Rutter; £46 Low Moor Dyke; £45 The Green; £44.50 Blandswath; £44 Laverock Bridge. Cont hoggs & singles: £55.50 Hallgarth. Cont shlgs & doubles: £56 Glebelands; £52 Low Rutter; £51 Birks Head. Geld gimmer hoggs. - Mule: £85 Clickham Farm; £82 Spedding Farm (Rylands); £81 Town Head (Holliday), Terry's Farm; £80 Briggle, Birks (Atkinson); £79 Town Head (Barker); £77 Spedding Farm (Davidson); £76 The Green; £75 Town Head (Ivinson), Dillicar Farm. Masham: £66 Town Foot (Martin). Cont: £67 Town Foot (Martin).

TOW LAW. - Special May term sale for store cattle & overwintered sucklers, 415 fwd.

Prices, steers red CID: Lim X to £615 Leazes Farm; Fries X £480 Leazes Farm. Blue CID: Lim X to £690 South Shields; BAX to £560 Butterknowle; BB to £580 Glebe Farm. Green: Lim X to £635 East Mayland; Char to £495 Butterknowle; BB to £500 Stockley Burn. Young bulls, green CID Lim X to £550 Woodburn. Hfrs: Lim X to £580 Hilltop; Char X to £425; Simm X to £522 Low West Farm; BAX to £518(2) Low West Farm; BB to £595 Harelaw.

Breeding cattle. - Lim X hfr & hfr calf £1,120 Leazes Farm; with bull calf £1,020 Leazes Farm