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Vlaamse show offers Euro insights

JUDGING

BELGIUM'S prestigious Vlaamse Border and Fife Fancy Club's most recent annual show was its 23rd and I had the pleasure of judging it for the fourth time. All aspects of the organisation of this show have been brilliantly run for many years by my friends Dirk and Marleen Pelgrims. The event attracted more than 500 Fifes from Belgium, Germany, Holland and France, which

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