BORDERWAY. - Last Fri, in collective catalogue sale of females in addition to Limousin society sale. Dispersal Briarwood herd for John and Mabel Garthwaite, Pelton Fell, Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, started in 1992.

Prices, in gns - Hydesville Penny & bull calf Briarwood Tommy 2,100 (Hydesville Penny 1,250 to GD Pickering, Thackside Farm, Goathland; Briarwood Tommy 850 to CD&WA Bland & Son, How Mill, Carlisle); Briarwood Pearl & hfr calf Briarwood Sapphire 1,850 (Briarwood Pearl 1,100 to AJ Ewing, Annan, Dumfriesshire; Briarwood Sapphire 750 to S Hamilton, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire); Briarwood Reda 1,850 to G Wilson, Wreay, Carlisle; Hartside Nosegay 1,600 to J Thompson, Melmerby, Penrith; Briarwood Laura 1,400 to M Evans, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy; Briarwood October 1,400 to DG Pickering.

Averages: 9 cows served &/or suckling £1,540; 5 served heifers, £1,029; 2 maiden heifers, £514.50; 2 bull stirks, £656.25.

MIDDLETON-in-TEESDALE. - Annual February show & sale of 327 store bullocks & hfrs. Judge: Jonathan Trenholme, Thirsk.

Prizes. - Bullocks: 1 & res champion GP Addison, Hayberries, £1,000; 2 JC&J White, Rigg Farm, £920. Hfrs: 1 & champion JC&J White £1,700; 2 MC Dent & Son, Wythes Hill, £900.

Prices, hfrs (all crosses). - Lim: £1,700 Rigg Farm; £900 Wythes Hill; £462 Wool Pitt Hills; £460 Bank Top; £450 Fellowship Farm; £442 Beck Head; £440 Battle Hill; £425 Lane Side; £412 South Wellhope; £405 Dirt Hope. BB: £440 Bank Top; £360 Low Nook. Char: £368 Baal Hill; £350 Revelin. BA: £350 Podge Hole Farm. Bullocks (all crosses). - Lim: £920 Rigg Farm; £630 Battle Hill; £618 Wool Pitt Hills; £615 Fellowship Farm; £605 Birch Bush; £600 South Wellhope; £560 Grains o'Beck; £550 Lane Side, Wythes Hill; £525 Toft House; £515 Hield House; £500 Pallet Stone, Summery Hill. BB: £1,000 Hayberries; £585 Low Nook; £580 Rigg Farm; £535 Mayland Hall. BA: £565 Little Burn Farm; £560 Grains o' Beck. Char: £495 Intake Farm; £470 Summery Hill; £465 Revelin.

TOW LAW. - Thurs, Feb 6. Special sale for 247 store cattle. Top priced steer, P Beveridge, Leazes Farm, 23-month Lim, red CID at £655; hfr Rochester & Murray, Glebe Farm, 22-month Lim X £650.

Prices, steers, red CID. - Lim X: £655, £635(2), £630, £600 Leazes Farm. Blue CID. - BAX: £595, £585 £560 Wolsingham Park Farms; £548 West Shields; £470 Wolsingham Park Farms. BBX: £570 Glebe Farm. Lim: X: £535 (14m), West Shields; £530, £510 Stockley Burn; £530, £460 West Biggins; £528, £455, £448, £445 Rogerley Hall; £510, £452 Glebe Farm. Char X: £500, £490 Thornley Hall. Green CID. - Lim X: £580, £565 (10m), Sunderland Cleugh; £440(2), £420 (9m) Holywell. Hfrs. - Lim X: £650, £515 Glebe Farm; £562, £540 Grange Farm; £535, £515 Stockley Burn, £535 West Biggins, £525 Low West Farm; £512 West Shields; £508 Harelaw, £448, £435 Baal Hill; £435 Rogerley Hall, West Biggins. BBX: £630 Low West Farm, £600, £525 Allergill, £545 Harelaw. BAX: £560 Allergill, £538, £518, £492 Wolsingham Park Farm, £535, £525 Grange Farm. Char X: £538 Wolsingham Park Farm, £530, £470 Grange Farm; £482, £432 Harelaw