"This is now the time of year where we see visiting criminals come to our area to hunt hares with dogs, a ‘barbaric sport' known as hare coursing"

Gloucestershire farmer and conservationist Eric Freeman died on October 29

Rachel Barr, 20, from Dumfries and Galloway, is a beef and sheep farmer

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Farmers have urged the Scottish Government to listen to farmers’ pleas on the impact of flooding and its links to the ‘exponential increase’ in beaver numbers, following the devastation caused by Storm Babet

Neil MacLeod said a woman who had lived on the Southesk Estate for more than 50 years had to be rescued after her home had flooded

Lucy Hooper, 21, is a farmer from North Molton in Devon

Llyr Jones said his 10-year-old sheepdog Patsy rescued three sheep from a flooded field in North Wales

The Scottish First Minister met NFUS president Martin Kennedy, chief executive John Davidson, director of policy Jonnie Hall and political affairs manager Beatrice Morrice at the Scottish Parliament to discuss Storm Babet, food production, biodiversity and climate change

Ms Coffey said damage from Storm Babet was harder to predict because the rain came from the east