A total of £50,000 in fines was given out to a construction company and Newry, Mourne and Down District Council after an electrical engineer was struck by a falling tree when working.

Over 1,000 pigs have been killed in a fire at a farmyard building in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Crime in rural parts of Northern Ireland’s north west more than doubled last year, with police warning livestock and farm machinery are a “lucrative market” for criminals.

A 34-year-old farmer has been convicted and fined by a court in Northern Ireland for water pollution offences.

A fire in a Co. Tyrone farm resulted in the death of a number of pigs, despite the best efforts of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) in putting out the blaze.

A court in Northern Ireland has convicted and fined a man who was found to be transporting puppies which were unfit for travel.

A Co. Tyrone farm business has been fined in court for water pollution.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are investigating the theft of £3,000 worth of farm machinery in Co. Derry.

An elderly man has died following a collision involving a tractor and a car in Northern Ireland in the past 24 hours.

Police are investigating two counts of sheep rustling in Co Derry after 13 pregnant ewes were stolen from a field in Claudy.

A Co. Down farmer has pleaded guilty in court to a water pollution incident which resulted in a fish kill in the River Lagan.

The thefts are the latest of several incidents in the past two months where sheep or lambs were stolen

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is currently investigating the reported theft of a cattle trailer from a farmyard in Co. Tyrone.

A court in Northern Ireland has imposed community service on a Co. Tyrone man for illegal possession of veterinary medicines.

A farmer and hydroelectric operator in Derry was found guilty of a fishery-related offence and received a 12-month conditional discharge at Coleraine Magistrates Court yesterday (Friday, January 5).