Rural Crime News

The South Yorkshire Police Motorcycle and Rural Crime Team have confirmed that the addition of two new quad bikes has led to a significant reduction in rural crime in the area. 

The publication of the latest rural crime report coincided with the horrific news that a sheep was recently disembowelled in Oxfordshire and 36 lambs were stolen from a Staffordshire farm.

The cost of rural crime in the UK has exceeded the estimated £50 million last year as thieves became more organised and determined, according to new figures from NFU Mutual.  

The investigation continues into the death of a Lancashire farmer who suffered gunshot injuries. 

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.