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THESE IMPRESSIVE SUGARBEET specimens were runners up at the annual Bishop Wilton village show in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Kevin was slightly surprised that people really did enter their vegetables in competitions. I said I thought there was something communal and celebratory about it; a group of local people coming together to say, this is what we grew this year, look -. As I was saying this, a wily-looking lady next to us grinned, and then, catching my eye, said, "You wouldn't say that if you knew the cheating and scheming that goes on. There was uproar in one village last year because someone said they saw a winner buying his cauliflower at Tesco"•