HOLCOMBE Hunt officials have discounted claims by anti hunting protesters that a meet at Aspull, near Chorley was seriously disrupted at the weekend.

Members of the North West Hunt Saboteurs claim they "confused the hounds" by non-violent action including imitating the hunting horn and voice calls as they hunt set out from Ainscough Farm, Bolton Road, Aspull.

A spokesman for the saboteurs said: "It was a very good start for us with no kills by the hunt - which is our main aim."

But hunt officials claimed that, despite the disruption caused by the protesters, the event "went off as planned".

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