Melplash Agricultural Show Highlights Local Cider Production and Apple Harvest Concerns

Country diary: It’s 10am at the Melplash Show and the cider contest is well under way | Sara Hudston

Bridport, Dorset: Away from the sheep, pigs and Martin Clunes’s horse, I find a bounty of local ciders – and concern about this year’s apple harvest It’s Melplash Show day and all of Bridport is here. Crowds jostle for a look at the pigs, cattle and sheep. The actor Martin Clunes, who lives locally, leads one of his heavy horses into the ring, a big strawberry roan gelding with a mane plaited with ribbons. Everyone ignores the celebrity: they are far more interested in the finer points of his...

By Sara Hudston