Entries may be made ‘on line’ through www.dog.biz The site has a personal database facility so that all exhibitors’ dogs can be listed just once and all the details picked up using a couple of mouse clicks when entries are being made. An immediate e-mail receipt is issued so there is no need for the old ‘proof of posting’ either. Credit card payments will be accepted as usual although, with the advent of entries over the internet, faxed entries will not be possible this year.

The association is delighted to be hosting the KC Good Citizen Dog Scheme on all three days. The Young Kennel Club and UK Handlers will also be present with their own activity area that will have a separate entrance and car parking facility.

‘This is an exciting challenge for the association,' he said, speaking to members during his chairman's report, 'But all those involved are committed to ensuring a smooth transition from Crawley to Newbury’. ‘Our biggest problem is likely to be stewards’, he continued. ‘Many of our loyal team from Sussex will find it too difficult to travel each day, so I do hope that exhibitors in the Newbury area will come forward to steward on those days that they are not showing.’ Chief Steward, Marjorie Cleaver, will be delighted to hear from anyone willing to steward. Her address is 75, Northease Drive, Hangleton, Hove, BN3 8PP and her telephone number is 01273-439135.