HUNT supporters on Exmoor have raised £700 for a service that has more than proved its worth. The money was raised by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds at an open day earlier this summer at the Exmoor stud, Brendon Hill Event Horses, owned and run by the Scott family. A lunch for 100 people was followed by the chance for dozens more people to look around the stud. And organisers were thrilled with the amount of donations from visitors in a bucket collection for the Devon Air Ambulance. Diana Scott, joint master of the D and S, said the service had responded to calls from the hunt on at least four occasions in the past year alone, including one emergency involving her. "They airlifted me to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton from a very remote spot near Simonsbath last August with a suspected broken neck. "Fortunately I was OK but it does make you realise just how vital the air ambulance is in this part of the world. "We are very grateful for their support and very glad that we can do something to show our appreciation." Pictured at the cheque presentation at the D and S opening meet last Saturday at Honeymead are, from the left, joint master George Witheridge, Mrs Scott, Devon Air Ambulance representatives Helen Rumbold and her husband, D and S Hunt Club chairman Rosemary Powell and Maurice Scott. Photo: Terry Crate.