Rural crime

The Agricultural Industries Confederation has urged farmers to be vigilant against the risks of fertiliser theft by providing the following safety tips

Firefighters said the farmers had heard the crash who came to the scene to help the affected driver

Greater Manchester Police said they had charged Neil Speakman with gross negligence manslaughter after three-year-old Albie Speakman had been killed by a tractor in 2022

NFU Mutual said the UK cost of livestock worrying has increased by nearly 30 per cent

"Poachers do not come to catch game to take for the pot. It is a sport to them. It is a killing machine."

Derbyshire Rural Crime Team confirmed they had arrested a man with 6 counts of handling stolen goods

Dyfed-Powys Police said over 70 ewes had been stolen from enclosed farmland in the area of Merthr Cynog toward the Upper Chapel

Sian Rees, a farmer from Llanrhidian, said she had lost 40 cows on the roads alone since 2021

Warwickshire Rural Crime Team said they made the offenders clean up the rubbish they had fly-tipped close to the Packington Estate

The Environment Agency said Roger Baker had deposited the waste at a farm in Exeter but then failed to remove it after over five years