Police are appealing for information after a cat was attacked with an air rifle in Carlisle.

Police have issued advice to prevent rural crime following a spate of burglaries.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man found guilty of waste offences on a Cotswolds farm after he didn't show up to court.

15 churches were targeted across the Midlands

A FARMER who faced a catalogue of animal welfare and animal by-product transportation charges is being sentenced in April.

As rising inflation sent fuel prices spiralling, a rural insurer's figures show that theft of oil, diesel and other fuels from homeowners doubled last year.

One such theft was experienced by a retired farmer's wife near Plymouth, Jean Piper.

Thieves emptied Jean's heating oil tank of £2,000 worth of fuel just three weeks after she had filled it.

She said: “It’s a lot of money to pay out again, but more than that it really shook me up to think someone had come onto my property.

“I still feel very nervous about it now, as well as it being a lot of money to lose.”

Jean knew something was wrong when she went to make a meal and her Rayburn cooker didn’t work.

She then realised that the heating wouldn’t switch on either and rang an engineer, assuming there was a fault somewhere.

“The heating engineer said it’s no wonder it’s not working you haven’t got any oil, but I told him that wasn’t possible, as I had not long had it filled,” said Jean.

Police are treating the death of the 74-year-old as suspicious following the results of a post-mortem examination.

Officers in Banchory are appealing for information in relation to a high-value theft of power tools at the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society’s yard, Milton of Crathes.

A crackdown on flytipping in Swindon and Wiltshire is being led by the region's Police and Crime Commissioner.

Police are investigating after a body was found in a bin at a village hall.

Hundreds of young footballers have been left wondering when they can next play after masked vandals damaged pitches at a recreation ground.

Police have revealed that Suffolk has been hit by a spike in heating oil thefts- with nearly six times as many this year, compared to the same time last year- as criminals take advantage of surging prices.

WEST Yorkshire Police dealt with over 20 animal-related incidents in the space of 48 hours this week – and one of them may raise a few eyebrows.

In one case, thieves stole a pensioner’s entire supply at her home three weeks after she had filled up at a cost of £2,000.

Farmers and law enforcement agencies must work together to gather data which can be vital in tackling rural crime gangs, said Suffolk's police commissioner.