Rural Crime News

Farmers have been asked to protect their vehicles against increasingly regular fuel thefts in rural areas of Western England.

Three family members from a farm in Pembrokeshire have been sentenced for deliberately swapping cattle ear tags to keep animals with bovine tuberculosis (bTB) reactors on the farm.

A fly-tipping incident that recently happened on Jeremy Clarkson’s farm has triggered debate on how to tackle an issue that affects many farmers in the area.

Police have been urging farmers to secure their pick-up trucks as they are increasingly targeted by thieves – often for overseas export.

Rural engagement officers from Essex have returned more than £80,000 of stolen machinery and equipment after a tip-off directing the authorities to a Nazeing industrial estate. 

UK farms have been targeted by livestock rustlers who steal animals and sell them on the black market. 

The star of Clarkson’s Farm spoke up about an upsetting incident that happened on Diddly Squat Farm recently, where a stranger broke a padlocked gate and dumped a large pile of rubbish on one of his fields.

An “obsessive” wild bird egg collector from Norfolk has admitted to illegally hoarding thousands of rare birds’ eggs. 

Suffolk construction and demolition company Tippers R Us has admitted to dumping soil in a county’s beauty spot, near Aldeburgh.

At the beginning of February, a flock of sheep from Langford Farm, near Tavistock, in Devon were chased over three fields by out-of-control dogs. 45 animals were killed.

£100,000-worth of stolen property has been recovered in just five months by a new police team in Cumbria.

A Staffordshire farmer has to pay over £4,000 for burning and burying waste on his land in Whittington.