The poultry section at this year's Royal Cornwall Show has been given the go-ahead.

The announcement comes after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has declared that restrictions due to bird flu are to come to an end.

The restrictions were imposed on poultry and captive birds across the country in December 2016, due to an outbreak of Avian Influenza.

But they were relaxed in February, except in high risk areas, and more recently poultry were once again allowed to go outdoors.

However Defra continued to enforce a no-gatherings of poultry policy, but have now announced that this will cease on May 15.

This means the popular poultry section, that includes a national level egg competition, will go ahead as planned at this year's show, held in Wadebridge on June 8 to 10.

Christopher Riddle, secretary of the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association, said: “It is great news that we will be able to have poultry at the show this year, it is a really popular element of the event.

“Whilst other shows were forced to cancel their poultry content we decided to press ahead as normal, taking entries, with a view that the situation would change, which fortunately is has done so.

“We very much look forward to welcoming exhibitors in June and we are glad to be able to accommodate them this year.”