THERE was a huge entry of 1,036 ‘oven ready’ Christmas turkeys and meats at the 2015 sale at Holsworthy market on Saturday, December 19, report Kivells.

A large crowd of buyers travelled to the market from all parts of the South West to buy, pushing the highest price oven ready turkey to £65 on behalf of H L Banbury, of St Ervan, Cornwall. Not far back was Paul Tucker and family of Barnstaple with the best of their line up at £57 and £54.

The best of the geese raised £47 and over 100 ham and beef joints from Somerset topped at £29.

The Christmas sale on behalf of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) saw the best of the toy tractors, kindly given by M/S Smallridge, of Barnstaple and Holsworthy, reach £100 to £120 with plenty of other smaller toys at £30 to £40.

The show amd sale was kindly sponsored by Cornish Mutual. The heaviest overall entry turkey from H L Banbury, weighed 33.5lb , and also won best presented entry.