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A sheep is believed to have become the world most expensive after selling for £231,000. Deveronvale Perfection, bred in Banffshire, was bought by a fellow local sheep farmer at a sale in Lanark.

The UK's most expensive sheep was an eight-month-old Texel tup, or non castrated male, called Deveronvale Perfection. It was sold at auction in 2009 for £231,000 at a livestock auction in Scotland.