Rural crime

A Cornish farmer has been told to pay out £3,765 after a spill of digestate at his farm led to a fish kill in the River Ottery

What is being done to protect roads in the countryside from the sorry state of fly-tipping?

Suffolk Constabulary said Linda Lawrence has been made subject to an indefinite ban on dog ownership as part of her sentence following a livestock worrying incident in the county

Crack down targets trespass, social media promotion and distress caused to farmers

Two men arrested as officers urge farmers and landowners to come forward with CCTV footage

Livestock owner targeted UK markets in seven-year sheep-swap spree

Police said it suspects that two fallow deer were shot by poachers in Lincolnshire

Jose Lopez-Vidal appeared in court for the second time in 10 months to face livestock worrying charges

The Government says it is targeting the vehicles and licences which ‘enable this offending’

Hopes more stringent rule will help to cut farm vehicle theft and fly-tipping