Egg supplier Sunrise Poultry Farms has been fined £233,000 after a 19-year-old was crushed between a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and a wall.

Leicestershire Police has a new team of volunteers on horseback who have been recruited to spot and report crime in the countryside.

A renewed focus on tracking devices, sharing of intelligence and partnership with farmers on the ground is helping a rural crime team crack farm machinery theft.

Leicestershire’s Rural Policing Team is on track to recover stolen property totalling £1m in less than a year.

Detectives have launched an appeal after four people were attacked at a village pub in Leicestershire.

15 churches were targeted across the Midlands

A farmer from Broughton Astley has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years after admitting illegal pig slaughter.

A dog-walker has described fly-tipping as a ‘brutal onslaught’ after repeatedly walking by rubbish dumped on rural land near Market Harborough.

The horrific incident happened as Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs attended the Cottesmore Hunt's opening meet, writes Daniel Jae Webb, SWNS.

They struck on Saddington Road during the early hours of yesterday and removed the underground copper cable after lifting manhole covers.

Extra police officers have been drafted in to patrol the Leicestershire and Rutland countryside to thwart hare-coursers, burglars, dangerous drivers, fly-tippers, farm robbers and church lead thieves.

A Leicestershire farmer has said the heatwave could have a "massive impact" on crops, with fears over the risk of field fires.

A Leicestershire farmer has been ordered to pay out over £15,000 for illegally discharging silage effluent into a brook which caused the death of around 80 fish.

Farmers in the Melton area are being urged to report all criminal activity to help the county police force’s dedicated rural policing team tackle offenders.

Farmers and other rural workers in Harborough are being invited to go along and learn about the latest security technology