Country diary: It’s 10am at the Melplash Show and the cider contest is well under way | Sara Hudston

Bridport, Dorset: Away from the sheep, pigs and Martin Clunes’s horse, I find a bounty of local ciders – and concern about this year’s apple harvest It’s Melplash Show day and all of Bridport is here.

Crowds jostle for a look at the pigs, cattle and sheep. The actor Martin Clunes, who lives locally, leads one of his heavy horses into the…