A SHOW has been hailed a success despite the weather.

Hundreds of people who attended Bellingham Show on Saturday, August 26 were glad to see it return for another year.

Crowds were treated to the usual events of dog and duck shows, live music and entertainment and did not let the changeable weather ruin the fun-filled day.

Secretary of the Bellingham Show & Country Festival, Sarah Jayne Davidson said: "It was a great day and we had hundreds of people attend the event. We had a lot of participants in shows and local traders to sell their stock.

"The day was overall a success and despite the thunderstorm, nothing dampened the spirits of the event."

Days before the event, it was mentioned in the Guardian as one of the best country shows in the UK.

The Guardian said: "This festival in the village of Bellingham, on the edge of Northumberland national park and half an hour from popular Hexham, is celebrated in Philip Larkin’s 1973 poem Show Saturday.

"It still features the dogs, ponies and sheep mentioned by Larkin, his beer marquee (which is now called the Reivers Return), the “long high tent of growing and making” and his Cumberland wrestling event. Other longstanding traditions include the Northumbrian piping competition and the fell race, while more novel attractions include the Biking Vikings, a group of motorcycle-riding, stilt-walking, pipe- and drum-playing charity Vikings. As Larkin said of the show, “Let it always be there.”