Rural Crime News

Two dogs, Gyp and Jess, will be rehomed after their owners were sentenced for hare coursing offences. 

An Annan farm partnership has been fined £600 for failing to properly maintain slurry storage, Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) reported. 

A Duns farmer has been fined £600 after he failed to protect the water environment by cattle poaching, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) confirmed. 

Rural crime officers are investigating the theft of a tractor and hedge trimmer from a farm in Dorchester. 

The owners of a Norfolk-based pumpkin patch have issued a plea to local residents following a theft of a tractor, 27 wheelbarrows and a mower. 

Officers from Cumbria’s dedicated rural crime team have recovered stolen property worth £820,000, cut quad bike thefts and made dozens of arrests in one year since the squad was launched.

Scottish Borders police are appealing for information after 70 hay bales were set alight at a farm in Berwickshire. 

An 85-year-old Welsh farmer has been handed a suspended sentence following charges relating to causing unnecessary suffering to sheep and cattle, with some “being eaten live by flies”. 

A Suffolk rare breeds farm has experienced an “absolute horror” after one of its sheep was shot. 

An eight-year-old boy died after he was shot in the head and face on a farm in Cumbria. 

A farmer from Northern Ireland was sentenced to 10 months in jail after causing unnecessary suffering to cows. 

200 litres of red diesel were stolen from a tractor in the Penrith area, Cumbria Police confirmed.