I WOULD like to extend a warm welcome to all your readers and the rest of the local community to come and join the hunts in Herefordshire and Worcestershire at their traditional Boxing Day meets on December 26.

Boxing Day is the highlight of the hunting year and the day when hundreds of thousands of people come and see their local hunt.

As many of your readers will know, 59 per cent of the British public want to keep hunting and I invite them to come and see the reality rather than the propaganda! As well as coming to the meet, people are also very welcome to then follow the hunt by car, bicycle or on foot.

Meets in your area:

Clifton on Teme, The Square, Bromyard.

North Cotswold, High Street, Broadway (10.45am)

Croome & West Warwickshire, The Square, Pershore.

Ledbury, The Feathers Hotel, Ledbury (10.45am).

North Ledbury, The Prancing Pony and Red Lion, Stiffords Bridge, Storridge.

Worcestershire, The Raven Hotel, Droitwich.

NICKY DRIVER, Hunting & the Community, Ledbury.