THE Royal Lancashire Show will be held in the Ribble Valley for a second year despite the traffic chaos and bad weather which marred last year's event, organisers confirmed today.

Event bosses said they had decided to press ahead with the Salesbury plans - as revealed back in August by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

The show was moved from Chorley to a new location at Salesbury Hall Farm, Ribchester, in 2003 in a bid to find a more popular and permanent site.

But massive traffic hold-ups and persistent heavy rain led to visitors complaining about muddy pathways and uneven road surfaces.

Show chairman Rennie Pinder said after last year's show that organisers believed the Ribchester site was still a suitable venue and that lessons needed to be learned.

They now say that plans for better roads are being put forward.

The second day of last year's event heralded a mass of complaints from visitors trying to reach the showground.

Queues lasting more than two hours were reported, and heavy rain led to muddy fields. The third day was cancelled amid safety concerns for the first time in the show's 236-year history.

Brian Collis, Ribble Valley councillor for Ribchester, said that he warned last year that Salesbury Hall Farm was the wrong site and was prone to holding water.

Speaking after today's announcement, Coun Collis, said he believed that lessons had not been learned from last year.

He said: "I expected they would hold the show on the same site but I believe that nothing has changed.

"Everything is exactly the same."