HUNTSMEN and hounds rode into a market place at the weekend in an attempt to make amends with residents following a pro-hunting stunt.
Members of the Saltersgate Farmers' Hunt met in Pickering, North Yorkshire, for the first time in 60 years, to demonstrate to local people that its members are law-abiding.
On March 7, members of several local hunts attempted to stop a steam train on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway so they could confront Scarborough MP Lawrie Quinn, who backed the ban on hunting with dogs.
Gordon Wheldon, Saltersgate Hunt chairman, said Pickering was traditionally the territory of the Derwent Hunt, but said: "After the incident in the station we wanted to show to the people of Pickering we are law-abiding and don't want to cause upset."
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