The chance of seeing a horse on the station platform in Australia are low, transport bosses said – but never zero.

In a coordinated effort to protect the welfare of three horses, North Wales Rural Crime Team conducted a rescue operation in Flintshire

Three people have been sentenced for committing animal cruelty offences at an equine therapy centre in Cornwall.

The British Horse Society (BHS) has issued a further appeal to the public to stop feeding horses after a foal suffered a bout of colic when he was fed by passers-by.

Firefighters spent hours freeing a pony who had got stuck in a cattle grid – after walkers left a gate open on a footpath.

The owner of a 16-year-old pony who was stolen last summer said it feels “unreal” to be reunited, eight months later.

About £1,600 worth of equipment for a pony was stolen from its tack room.

A rider who was attacked by a dog last year, and has since had five or six similar near-misses, has launched a Government petition hoping for “better protection for all of us”.

Meet Trooper, Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) newest equine recruit, an 18.2hh part-bred Shire who is settling in well to life in the mounted branch.

The introduction of £5,000 penalty notices for animal welfare offences has been welcomed – but their effectiveness depends on enforcement, and they could be “open to misuse”.

A one-tonne Percheron police horse helped arrest a man carrying a knife in the final week of his distinguished career with the Metropolitan Police mounted branch.

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and Point-to-Point Authority (PPA) are investigating the fall, which happened on 4 February, in which a 25-year-old rider died.

An average of more than one horse a week was killed on Britain’s roads last year, and three riders lost their lives, as many drivers are “still unaware of the advice in the Highway Code”.

An investigation has been launched after five horses were killed in a fire.

Police are appealing for information after “some form of projectile” was shot at a pony being driven on a main road in Buckinghamshire.