Here are details of the trophy winners and the Best in Section awards.

Society secretary Gay Jordan reported that entries were well up on last year (805 entries from 108 exhibitors, including 28 children in the designated children's classes, compared with 639 entries from 89 individuals last year. It was also pleasing to note that a number of children (aged up to 15 years) entered exhibits in the open classes, where they were competing with adults.

President Ian Chalk thanked the hard-working committee who had organised and run the show before presenting the trophies (which are awarded for the most points in a group of classes) as follows:

Horticultural classes - Graeme & Chrissie Hollingdale won the RHS Banksian Medal for the most prize money gained in the Horticultural Classes and also walked away with the Mabel Parkinson Memorial Trophy for the most points gained in all classes in the show and the Major Sladen Challenge Cup for Flower Classes except Dahlias & Chrysanthemums, as well as Best in Section for Flowers for a Vase of six kinds of Perennial Flowers; R Cartwright won both the cups for the vegetable classes - the Robert G Green Challenge Cup for a resident of Haddenham, including Aston Sandford, Kingsey and Scotsgrove, and the Dick Rose Memorial Cup which has no residence restrictions; Mick Penn won both the Bert Wells Perpetual Trophy for the Dahlia classes and the Laurels Chrysanthemum Challenge Trophy; the Pilcher Perpetual Trophy for the Fruit classes was won jointly by Brian Plastow (who won Best in Section for his plums) and Alison Glanville; the Stonley Cup for the Cactus and Succulent classes (which was awarded last year for the first time) was won by Gay Jordan, who also won Best in Section for a Cactus or Succulent in a pot over 15cm; Annette Spellman won the Joan Thame Perpetual Trophy for the Flower Arranging classes. Winners of other classes were - Ray Smith, Floyd Trophy for Photography; Alison Glanville, Win Gregory Trophy for Preserves; Christine Wheeler-Cherry, Emma Balcombe Perpetual Trophy for Sweet and Savoury Classes; Teresa Wright, Thomas Forster Perpetual Trophy for Bread; Tim Shaw, Silver Challenge Cup for Beer and Wine; Ann Mary Johnstone, Haddenham Horticultural Society Challenge Cup for Handicrafts, and also Best in Section Handicrafts - general for a soft toy and Handicrafts - embroidery, in the class for an embroidered box, bag or book. Brenda Bonnage, who returned to live in Haddenham a couple of years ago and was competing in the show for the first time, was surprised to win the Alan Boddington Memorial Trophy for the Art classes, which is presented in memory of her late uncle. The children's trophies went to Olivia A. Flaxton, who won the L M R Webb Challenge Cup and Shield for under 11s, and Natalie Quinn, who won the Jubilee Junior Cup and Shield for 11-15 year olds.

Other Best in Section awards not mentioned above went to: C & E Pullen, Vegetables (for Five Potatoes, white); Mrs. O M Capon, Floral Art (for an arrangement entitled "Jive"); Nicola Collins, Photography (for a set of 4 photos on the theme 'Winter'); Alison Glanville, Preserves etc (for pot of Lemon Curd); Pauline Payne, Sweet and Savoury (for Twelve Cheese Straws); Ann Warris, Bread (for a Fancy Loaf); Gordon Lawson, Beer and Wine (for a bottle of fruit wine); Dorothy A Pooley, Art (for Painting in watercolour, Landscape) - an exhibit which also won the BAHS Rosette, awarded each year to an outstanding exhibit in one of the sections (on a rotating basis); Ann Farr, Handicrafts - Knitting etc (for Any article in Bobbin Lace or Tatting).