PROTESTERS from Herefordshire joined in with over 700,000 marchers at the People's March vote in London last weekend.

The march saw people from around the UK take to the streets to demand a vote on the final Brexit deal.

At least two coaches travelled from the county, with one from Hereford sponsored by Years and Years frontman Olly Alexander.

Anti-Brexit group Herefordshire for EU took part in the demonstration and marched behind a banner bearing the Hereford bull.

Protestors from the group also carried in their pockets the names of others who supported the march but could not attend in person.

Chair of the group Polly Ernest carried a banner with 250 people's names on.

She explained her decision to take part: "We have just been ignored and no one is listening to us. If after the vote the leaders had come out and said ‘wow, that was a bit close, we need to find a way to bring the two sides together’, we might have been able to accept the result. Instead of which we were branded “Citizens of Nowhere’ by our Prime Minister who vowed to crush the saboteurs. Hardly the language to make people feel included.

"In addition in Herefordshire we have MPs who are unwilling to meet with us or discuss our concerns despite frequent invitations to street stalls and requests for surgery appointments. I marched because we are losing our fundamental rights. We were promised the easiest deal in history and exactly the same benefits. This is now clearly not the case."

Fellow protestor Peter Dyke made his own way to the march from Hereford and was moved by the experience.

He said: "I admit to being a bit nervous – it was my first political march – but in the end it was easy to speak to other marchers and I’m glad I did so.

"In all it was a tremendously moving experience to see so many others so deeply worried about the direction we seem to be heading. There was a solemn mood, but not without some sense of hope."