Some of you have been loving the Royal Smithfield Show remembered stories dredged up from The Raider s dark and distant past. The NFU s Christine Cuthbertson recalled the first time she went down to the show at a student. It was with a lecturer and fellow students at SAC Auchincruive, circa 1993 – and talk about country comes to town! she said. I was perplexed when we went up the escalator in Earl’s Court to come into view with the all the cattle and naively thought that the cattle had taken the escalator up to their stalls as well – much to the hilarity of my student pals!