Rural crime

A Welsh Farm Group has been set up to support police in tackling rural crime. 

A homemade sign which warns trains to slow down to protect ‘sheep on line’ has sparked an investigation by the British Transport Police.

A homemade sign which warns trains to slow down to protect sheep on line has sparked an investigation by the British Transport Police.

More than £25,000-worth of GPS receivers and screens have been reported stolen across rural locations in Staffordshire in the last 30 days. 

As green shoots literally reappear and multiply amidst the UK’s farmland hedges and woodland, so too will visitors and day trippers re-emerge en mass this Easter weekend as the countryside once again gears up for an influx of people.

Police responses to sheep worrying incidents are improving as more farmers opt to report the crime, industry chiefs have said. 

A Government proposal to ban local authorities from charging for DIY household waste disposal could help curb fly-tipping incidents, industry chiefs have said. 

A Kent farmer has been fined £4,992 after a worker became entangled in the contra-rotating rollers of a potato harvester and suffered multiple injuries. 

A criminal who bought thousands of pounds of farm machinery at auction but failed to pay has been jailed for three years and 11 months.

Police forces will still face the upfront financial burden of kennelling dogs seized in relation to hare-coursing offences, despite new legislative powers reimbursing costs.