Rural Crime News

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is warning farmers about a farm machinery scam that is affecting victims across the UK.

A farm company and its director have been fined almost £8,000 after failing to ensure that slurry on his land did not cause pollution.

One of the Lurcher puppies is still missing following the theft of seven dogs that happened in North Dorset just after Christmas. 

A Wiltshire farmer has been given a suspended prison sentence after decaying sheep carcases were found on the farm.

Communities across Lancashire will receive funding to crackdown on rural crime following the theft of a milk tanker and other large farming vehicles. 

Officers from Dorset Police are appealing for information following the theft of seven puppies that happened just after Christmas.

Another dog attack on livestock happened in Suffolk in the space of just two weeks, seeing three sheep being killed by out-of-control dogs. 

A fire that destroyed two barns as well as three tractors on a farm near Totton, Hampshire, is being treated as an arson attack.