Show organisers celebrate first post-crisis profits (From Tewkesbury Admag)

Show organisers celebrate first post-crisis profits

THE organisers of Moreton Show will have extra reason to be thankful when they celebrate Plough Sunday this weekend.

For the first time since the foot-and-mouth crisis, last year's show returned a healthy profit.

Secretary Tim Gardner said he hoped to build on the trading surplus of £16,740 over the coming year. "We have done well to keep down costs - the show is a lean, mean machine.

"Partly this is the result of increased income but also of careful control of expenditure and it would not have happened without perfect weather on showday, even if not for the harvest.

"It's the end of another chapter of the foot-and-mouth disaster of 2001."

He added that further savings would be made this year without any increase in entrance charges or subscriptions.

"One thing we want to do is increase our catchment area by developing a network of roadside board sites more than ten miles from Moreton.

"We would like to hear from anyone with suitable private land that we could put our signs on."

Anyone who can help should call the show office on 01608 651908.

The Plough Sunday service will be held at St Peter's Church in Winchcombe at 3pm.