Lambeth Country Show to take a break in the Olympic year (From Your Local Guardian)

Lambeth Country Show to take a break in the Olympic year

11:27am Saturday 4th February 2012 in Top stories By Hannah Williamson

The Lambeth Country Show will take a break this year to focus on celebrations for the London Olympics and Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

The two-day event held every July in Brockwell Park, sees a variety of acts performing, and usually attracts more than 80,000 people on each day.

This year's show would have been the 38th year of the usually annual event, but Lambeth Council have decided the added pressure on the emergency services with start of the London Olympics, it was not practical to stage the event this year.

The show boasts all the trappings of a traditional country fair including horticultural shows, sheep dog and owl displays, but with a distinctly Lambeth feel- making it the biggest festival in south London.

Cllr Florence Nosesgbe, Lambeth Council cabinet member for Culture said: "It's going to be an amazing, once in a lifetime summer, with celebrations taking place across Lambeth and London.

"The Lambeth Country Show is a tremendous logistical challenge, even in a normal year. With the Olympic Games due to start just a few days later it makes sense to postpone it this year and concentrate on the Olympics.

"It's not the only event making way for the Olympics- even Glastonbury is taking a break."

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