Emily Welch - takes out the lamb shearing record in a fantastic perfomance of skill and determination  

Emily Welch shore 648 sheep in nine hours to take out the long-standing lamb shearing record.  She smashed the previous record of 541 by a massive 107 lambs averaging more than 70 lambs an hour or around 1 every 51 seconds!

Fibre Tensile Strength

Laurie Boniface provides some tips on how to judge the soundness, or tensile strength, of a fleece.