North Yorkshire Police are appealing for information about an incident of livestock worrying which took place near Harrogate on Thursday 24 March 2022.

As we near the end of lambing season, with young lambs out in the fields, dog owners are being reminded to keep their animals under control around sheep and other livestock.

The incident happened on land beside a public footpath below the ruins of John of Gaunt’s castle nnear Beaver Dyke Reservoir, in an area known as Haverah Park near Harrogate.

The unusually warm and sunny weather is putting lambs at risk from hatching nematodirus - and the south west has been hit already.

Police are at a farm in North Devon as hundreds of animals are being removed in an RSPCA investigation.

NI farm minister Edwin Poots has given the go-ahead for badger culling and additional cattle measures as part of renewed efforts to eradicate bovine TB in the province.

Preston Magistrates’ Court heard that on August 25, 2017, the employee was helping to move a bull and four cows towards a waiting lorry at the premises of his employer Gisburn Auction Marts Ltd.

The total value of the stolen equipment is around £2,500.

Gutowski, 53, of Pyrland Fields, Taunton, admitted two counts of failing to spare an animal avoidable pain, distress or suffering at the time of killing.

An in-lamb ewe suffered injuries in a livestock worrying incident near Llanfair Caereinion.

The local focus hub has received many complaints of dogs escaping address perimeters, attacking other dogs and animals and causing a detrimental effect on the community they live within.

The breeding ewes were stolen from an area known as Llysdinam common hill, Newbridge-on-Wye, near Builth Wells. One problem might have is that the sheep have gone missing sometime between the summer of 2021 and January this year!

NORTH Yorkshire Police are reminding dog owners to keep their dogs on leads when around sheep, or they put their pet at risk of being shot by the landowner.

A livestock collection market will open near Offwell despite fears that it will cause havoc on the nearby road.

A man who stole over 600 sheep has been ordered to pay back the proceeds of his crimes to affected farmers, a total of £11,000.