HORSE behaviourist Richard Maxwell is a guest of Voice of the Horse at Houghall College, Durham later this month.

Pam Ainsworth, BHS organiser, said: "Horses have a lot of senses which humans have a habit of messing up.

"Richard Maxwell deals with horses with big behavioural problems, whether it be an irrational fear of plastic bags, or water, or it may be that they just will not go into their boxes or they will not walk past pigs or dogs.

"They are put in a stress situation, which they cannot cope with, and Richard Maxwell is able to address any number of problems you find."

The event is at Houghall Farm, off the A177 Durham to Shincliffe road, on June 22.