Rural Crime

A Wellington dairy farmer was given a suspended prison sentence and was ordered to pay £10,000 for allowing slurry to run into the Westford Stream. 

Hampshire Police are urging farmers to be extra vigilant for hare coursing activity following a recent incident that saw a farmer being threatened with a catapult. 

126 sheep have been stolen from a farmland in Nottinghamshire. 

Three baby pygmy goats that were stolen from an East Sussex farm have been found. 

A family-run farm from the Ceredigion area of Wales has been found guilty of an environmental crime after the catastrophic collapse of their slurry store polluted local waterways. The farm owners were ordered to pay over £13,000 in fines. 

A radical animal rights group, Animal Rising, now says it has no plans for a ‘mass open rescue’ from RSPCA Assured farms this summer.

Three baby pygmy goats have been stolen from a farm located in East Sussex, leaving a six-year-old girl “heartbroken”. 

A Welsh wildlife photographer has been fined for disturbing a honey buzzard nest without a licence. 

Sheep and a lamb had drowned after being chased by dogs into a reservoir. 

A Hertfordshire man was left “devastated” after his 11 pygmy goats were stolen last week. 

Growers and distributors of plant protection products (PPPs) are being warned to be on high alert following a break-in at a secure distributor store. 

Farmers across the UK are being urged to be vigilant following a new wave of Global Positioning System (GPS) thefts in recent weeks.