A hunt saboteur has been branded a “danger to the public” by a judge as he was jailed.

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

An experienced shearer is now a British record holder after shearing 706 lambs in eight hours.

A flytipper has been found guilty of several charges after failing to turn up for his trial.

Ian Bell and Rebeca Dickens were among seven regional winners and awarded the overall title at the Great Yorkshire Show.

Flytipper who dumped 'large amount of tree waste' in country lane caught out by CCTV

Organised crime gangs are stealing farm machinery and GPS kits worth tens of thousands of pounds to sell on in the UK and abroad, an insurer has warned.

PC Daniel Smith from the Rural Crime Taskforce conducted a stop-and-search on Rolls following intelligence in Woolmans, Fullers Slade, at around 11am on Thursday (22/6).

A spokesman for Thames Valley Police's Rural Crime Taskforce said: "Four days ago we posted a picture of this damaged historic gravestone at St Mary’s church in Adderbury

When spoken to by police, the tenant of the plot, Leslie Shooter, 57, stated that he had set a number of traps to control rats. However, he had not covered the traps as required by law, resulting in the trapping of the bird.

"Our Safer Neighbourhood Teams have been actively engaging with local businesses to combat rural crime and ensure the security of vital installations such as solar farms. Solar farms play a pivotal role in the UK’s renewable energy infrastructure.

As reported, police investigating hare coursing were shown evidence of a dog being set on a chicken. The chicken was killed in the incident, Dorset Police’s rural crime team said.

Sergeant Brian Calver of Suffolk Constabulary’s Rural and Wildlife Crime team said: “This crime was not an opportunist moment. This was organised, planned criminality, targeting our heritage. We’ll never know just how much history and knowledge has been lost as a result of their offending, purely for selfish gain.

Police say the offences were “planned meticulously”

POLICE have launched an appeal after a group of youths caught a duckling with a hook and dragged it until it died.