FED-UP Elcombe residents are calling for ASBOs to be issued against members of the Cotswold Hunt because they say its hounds continually cause havoc on their land.

In October, 10 angry householders wrote to the hunt asking it to keep hounds off their property.

But on Thursday residents say they saw hounds on their land again.

Householder Denise Ward said: "We heard a terrible noise and looked out to see a whole pack of hounds coming down through the woodlands opposite us - which is private land.

"They went down over the Trantershill Plantation which is also private land and into my neighbour's garden.

"Then there was this terrible screaming noise which could have been a fox or a deer.

"When they were gone I went up there and found fresh blood."

She reported the incident to the police and forensic tests are being carried out.

Mrs Ward and her neighbour, Jeanne Berry, who claims the hounds also crossed her land, both say Anti-Social Behaviour Orders would solve the problem.

ASBOs can ban people from committing anti-social offences and prohibit them from entering a specified area.

They have become synonymous with so-called 'chav culture' - a world away from the hunting set.

Besides the disturbance, Mrs Berry is worried about the safety of her pets cats.

She has now asked a solicitor to begin a civil action for trespassing. "Why can't they be given ASBOs? If it was a teenager doing it they would be given one straight away," she said.

The Andoversford-based hunt said nothing was killed and that every effort is made to keep hounds off private land.

However, Bob Cooper, a senior master, admitted one or two hounds may have strayed.

"We know about the Elcombe situation and have sent notification of when we're in the area to those residents," he said.

"As far as we're aware the hounds didn't go on private land.

"However a couple may have strayed from the rest of the pack but if the whole pack was there the huntsman would have been with them."

He declined to comment on the calls for an ASBO.