HOW I laughed at the jolly japes of those loveable rogues from the Real Countryside Alliance for dressing up the Kilburn White Horse as a red jacketed hunter.

And when I discovered they had left a wodge of cash to pay for their vandalism, I could almost forgive them for breaking the law.

But not quite, because these are the same vandals who have been spray painting their pro-hunting slogans all over North Yorkshire and costing thousands of pounds of taxpayers money to clean up.

I do not find tearing a fox to pieces with a pack of dogs or trapping a vixen and her cubs in a den and sending in the terriers amusing either. At the last count, and the one before that and the one before that, neither did most people, including MPs.

Alan Robertshaw,

Towthorpe Road,

Haxby, York.

Updated: 10:16 Wednesday, September 04, 2002