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Welshpool's New Market

It's cost 13 million to build and it's hoped it will help revive the agricultural industry in Wales. Today the new state-of-the-art Welshpool livestock market was officially opened - although the first market won't be held there until next week. Housing over a thousand sheep and two hundred cattle pens, it's the largest market of its kind in Wales and one of the biggest in Europe.

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