WARNING: This article contains graphic photos released by the police that some readers may find upsetting.

Officers from Cheshire Police’s Rural Crime Team headed to Runcorn yesterday, Friday, to search for the stolen gear valued at £15,000.

POLICE were visible in Widnes following shocking reports of wildlife being shot with an air rifle yesterday, Thursday.

Officers say they have been informed over recent days of youths throwing objects at wildfowl in Victoria Park.

The Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team said it had been out on routine fishing enforcement patrol in the Caughall area of Chester when the knife was found "within easy reach" of a van driver in the vicinity of fishing pools.

Chester Police and the Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team are investigating the theft of a backhoe loader, which they say has been potentially stolen from a construction site near the Ince area.

Late in the evening of Monday, April 18 two wooden and steel gates at the entrance to the forest were ripped from the posts which secured them to the ground.

POLICE have launched an appeal in a bid to trace a man and woman following a dog attack incident on grazing land at Statham near Lymm, which resulted in the deaths of eight sheep, including young lambs and an expensive Ram.

A huge fire near Malpas Farm Shop in Malpas is being treated as arson.

A MAN from Oldham has been arrested on suspicion of theft a month after paving stones were stolen from a church in Cheshire.

EIGHT sheep, lambs and a ram have been killed in a savage dog attack.
Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team say the incident happened near Pool Lane in Lymm on March 30.

Officers say that while it is not a major theft, it is an inconvenience for those living and working on the farm.

Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team said an officer from their team had been to the site since the fire was put out to assess the damage.

A man from Great Yarmouth has been jailed for more than two years after DNA evidence linked him to the theft of GPS navigation systems worth £30,000 from tractors in Cheshire.

These dramatic images show the scale of the wildfire that broke out on marshland in Parkgate last night (Saturday March 19). A number of crews were first called to the scene at around 6.20pm.