Officers from the road crime team of Nottinghamshire Police visited an address in Flintham Lane, Screveton, in Rushcliffe, at around 1.40pm on Tuesday afternoon after a trailer, reported missing from Costock, was spotted in a field by a police drone.

Nottinghamshire Roads Policing Unit teamed up with Lincolnshire Police Rural Crime Action Team and Newark and Sherwood Operation Reacher officers yesterday (Monday) for the cross border work.

A 28-year-old man has now been reported for summons to appear before magistrates

Farms have been warned by Nottinghamshire police after a spate of rural crimes.

Over 200 rabbits have been taken from a farm after a 'relentless' campaign from animal rights activists that included reported night raids on the property.

Two men were arrested as police officers in Bassetlaw once again joined up in an operation to combat rural crime.

The National Police Air Service helicopter was deployed and the vehicle later located on the A616. requested.

The car had been spotted driving slowly into an industrial compound containing scrap metal in the Mansfield area before leaving the site.

A Nottinghamshire smallholder has been issued a ten-year ban from keeping livestock after trading standards officers found rotting carcasses on her land.

Police investigating the theft of a large amount of sheet metal from an industrial site in Bassetlaw have charged a suspect.

Two Doncaster men have been held as part of a trio arrested over rural burglaries.

A driver admitted carrying waste without the correct licence for 25 years during an operation to clamp down in illegal activity in Newark.

On closer inspection of the vehicle, officers found around 100 skeleton keys, an angle grinder and three cut-off catalytic converters.

Four suspects were arrested as officers took to the streets and countryside in a bid to crack down on rural crime.

Nottinghamshire Police is taking extra steps to stop thefts of horse box trailers.