Rural Crime News

The widespread illicit smuggling of ‘bushmeat’ into the UK and its ‘home deliveries’ have been recently discovered by Countryside Alliance. 

Suffolk Police are appealing for help to locate the owner of a sheep that was found dead in Tunstall Forest on Tuesday, 4th March. 

Two farmers from North Yorkshire have been fined after a former teacher, David Clark, was killed by a herd of cows while crossing the right of way.

The CLA has challenged the government to launch its rural crime strategy, as new figures reveal how rural communities are being buried under mountains of fly-tipping. 

A sheep that was shot on a Suffolk rare breeds farm has made a full recovery, having recently given birth to “gorgeous” twins. 

Farm animals worth almost £1.8 million were severely injured or killed in dog attacks in 2024. This marks a decrease of 26% compared to the previous year, NFU Mutual has reported.

Ahead of the spring application season, farmers, growers and distributors of plant protection products have been urged to be vigilant against well-organised criminals seeking to raid secure storage facilities.

Wiltshire Rural Crime Team has issued a plea for dog owners after a sheep was bitten by a dog and another ewe aborted her lambs. 

A Suffolk farmer has been ordered to pay £27,000 after he left dozens of dead sheep on his land for weeks. 

Three men have been arrested after 30,000 tonnes of household and construction waste, piled 15 feet high, was discovered at the Hoads Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Ashford, Kent.

The B&B Tractors depot in Tideswell near Buxton has been broken into in the middle of the night by over a dozen people.

Police have apologised after dozens of 4X4s linked to hare coursing ripped through farmland and fields across the county.