I feel I must correct your report on the Boxing Day meet in Lewes (The Argus, December 27).

"Two-hundred demonstrators braved the cold," the article claimed.

But not all of those on and around the Crown Court steps were protesters.

I would say there were no more than 40, although the noise they made with their whistle-blowing and abusive insults made it seem like more.

Many hunt supporters also gathered and the police were directing impartial spectators to that side of the road, which may have misled your reporter into thinking that everyone behind the barriers were "antis".

-J Lear, Hailsham