The market report from Sedgemoor Auction Centre for Monday, October 14, is as follows. The total stock was 1055 head. A stand on lamb trade at 165.5 ppk. Prime Cattle to 204.5, 181.5, 179.5 & 178 ppk from J & S Vinnicombe & Son. 116 Prime and
Lives of chemotherapy patients in Cornwall will be made a little more comfortable thanks to a farmer's wife's fundraising. Angela Wallis, from Gunwalloe, decided she wanted to give something back after receiving cancer treatment herself at the Headland
By Martin Lea @DorsetEchoMart A man who admitted destroying a roost for a protected species of bat has been ordered by a court to pay more than £7,000. Iain Russell Turner, 50, admitted damaging or destroying the breeding site or resting place
By Sam Beamish @dorsetechosam, reporter “WE are not anti-Brexit, we are anti-no-deal.” The National Farmers Union (NFU) in Dorset says the farming industry is feeling let down and betrayed by the region’s MPs, who aren’t doing enough to make
By Alex Winter, @Winter_Alex POLICE patrolling Dorset's countryside have called for anyone with information about poaching to come forward. Officers from the rural crime teams say they need people to call about issues including sightings of suspicious
The market report from Sedgemoor Auction Centre for Saturday, October 12, is as follows. The total stock was 5686 head. A massive entry of of 1336 store cattle, stirks and sucklers and good trades all round. Huge entry of 2494 store lambs sold to
Symonds & Sampson held their third property auction of the autumn in Axminster on October 10, attracting a large crowd of local, regional and national buyers as 12 lots went under the hammer. Partner Ross Willmington said: “We expected a large gathering
