Rural crime

Wiltshire police have confirmed that a farmer died in Little Somerford on Wednesday (September 10)

The NFU are calling for the government to create a cross-departmental rural crime task force to address the failures in dealing with rural crime

Members have been encouraged to contact the CLA on all matters related to crime, particularly as it helps in its work with police forces across the North and beyond

In the rural districts of West Oxfordshire, South Oxfordshire, and Vale of White Horse, the decrease in rural crime was 36% in the first quarter of this year compared to the same quarter last year

Suffolk Police have confirmed that the farmer died at a farm in the Woodbridge area on Thursday (September 4)

Fractious events in the Vale of Glamorgan have seen farmers receiving an increasing number of threats of physical violence, shooting and arson when asking trespassing hare coursers to leave their property

Ceredigion police inspector Matthew Howells said there is a possibility that the lambs may have been stolen for the smokies trade - a delicacy in many West African countries where sheep meat is scorched with a blowtorch to give it a smoked flavour

The food crime team discovered 1.9 tonnes of animal by-products at an illegal meat cutting plant in Southwark

East Riding of Yorkshire Council said the farmer chose to euthanise the cow instead of providing the animal with veterinary treatment

Dashcam footage caught tractor veering across traffic before mounting central reservation