FARM & COUNTRY Events Calendar 2008.(Features)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: March 20, 2008 | Copyright information

AN UNDOUBTED highlight of this year's rural calendar will be the long-awaited return to North Wales of the Supreme International sheepdog trials.

The three-day event, which represents the pinnacle of the sport in Europe, has not been staged in the region for more than half-a-century - it was last held in North Wales at Llandudno in 1956.

Corwen's Aled Owen won last year's supreme title and he will be defending it on home soil at Kinmel Park, St George, Abergel...

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