Royal Lancashire Show shuts up shop

The Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society has admitted defeat in its attempts to resurrect the Royal Lancashire Show in 2010.

Having cancelled the show for a variety of reasons in 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Society says in a statement on its website that it has accepted defeat in its attempts to create a 2010 Royal Lancs Show.

It lays the blame for the cancellation of next year’s show door of Ribble Valley Borough Council which refused to allow a proposed amendment to a previous traffic plan for the event.

A spokesman said “everything now looks bleak and it is very difficult to see any possibility of another Royal Lancashire Show being held at anytime in the foreseeable future.”