Visitors to this years Showman's Show will get the opportunity to meet the people behind some of the UKs most exciting events of 2002.

Companies and producers who worked on the Queens Jubilee celebrations, radio roadshows, pop and rock festivals and the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth games will be exhibiting at the show which takes place at Newbury Showground in Berkshire on 16 and 17 October.

Organiser of the show Stephen Lance of Lance Publications is anticipating a busy show:

'We will be making some changes to the layout of the showground. These are in part being made to accommodate increased demand for space and partly to make the show more effective for visitors and exhibitors.'

Exhibitors at this years show include Team Extreme, a show team for BMX, skateboarding and inline skating; Brightlights - the company behind the lighting of the London Eye and the company who kept unwanted revellers out of the Glastonbury festival by erecting one of its Super Fortress fences, Eve Trakway.

Ticketing company ID&C will use the Showman's Show to launch its new low priced plastic ID wristbands called Leisure Band which glow in the dark while Premier Rides will be promoting its fairground rides which it supplies to the corporate market place.