As Longtown sells about 15, 000 sheep a week on average, that's a lot of sheep.

ECONOMIST: Farmers

His gang William Young, of Houghton, and Geoffrey Cairns and Francis Morley, both Longtown, were also jailed.

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The luckpenny certainly has not brought any luck to those who bought animals at Longtown in February.

ECONOMIST: Farmers

Malcolm Bendle, the Longtown company secretary, maintains that the market's book-keeping system is so meticulous that private trading is impossible.

ECONOMIST: Farmers

Her remains were found almost two years ago, on 18 January 2011, in a wooded area between Longtown and Gretna.

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Some 30 members of Brecon, Central and Longtown mountain rescue teams were called and difficult conditions meant she could not be reached by rescue helicopter.

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At first they were collected in Longtown, over the border from Lockerbie in Cumbria, but later were put together on a massive frame at the AAIB facility in Hampshire.

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Abergavenny-based Longtown Mountain Rescue Team was called to the aid of the four youngsters and their trainer who had become stranded in their minibus on the top of Gospel Pass, between Abergavenny in Monmouthshire and Hay-on-Wye, Powys.

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