Police have conducted two nights of dedicated operations across the Winchester and Basingstoke districts in a concerted effort to address rural crime and ensure the safety of residents.

Criminals suspected of hare coursing managed to flip their car while fleeing from police.

A quad bike was stolen from a farm in Romsey in a burglary using forced entry - however the police were able to return it quickly thanks to a tracker.

Officers from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary’s Country Watch team are issuing a warning to dog walkers to keep their pets on leads in rural areas or potentially face prosecution.

Police Commissioner Donna Jones announces £84K funding to combat rural crime in Hampshire and Isle of Wight

“WE STILL find it hard to believe, it feels like a bad dream” – those were the words of the owner of a farm where a baby donkey was reunited with her mother more than two weeks after being stolen.

Swans, Ducks and Other Birds Were Killed and Injured in the Attacks.

Between Wednesday 12 April and Saturday 13 May, we have received four reports of groups of young people intentionally harming wild birds:

Police are searching for group of teenagers who were seen torturing a duck in Southampton.

A member of the public has been ordered to pay £300 compensation to a farmer following a dog attack which killed a sheep.

Taking the head, or any part of a badger, is a criminal offence under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.

There they found a digger along with a pair of ramps which had been stolen early that morning from an address in Burley.

A Sandown woman has been made to pay compensation to the owner of a sheep, which was killed in a dog attack on the Isle of Wight last month (March).

The value of the equipment totalled around £10,000.

An 18-year-old man from Sandown has been arrested on suspicion of arson after an attempted attack on a van in East Cowes last night (Friday).