SPECIALIST animal rescue teams from Dorset Fire and Rescue Service helped free a horse that was stuck in a gate on Saturday morning.

The animal, which was released unharmed, got its leg stuck in a metal gate at Tollard Royal, just over the Wiltshire border.

DFRS’s animal rescue team from Poole fire station, a DFRS crew from Shaftesbury and a Wiltshire crew attended the incident around 9.30am.