Around 100 people attended, recognising the collective importance of protecting and preserving the county's heritage and supporting the police in making it tougher for offenders to target these sites.

A teenage girl stabbed in a Suffolk village was left lying injured for hours before she was finally found by a dog walker.

A litter-strewn section of the River Wear is set to be cleared of debris after a local campaign.

Avon and Somerset Police have confirmed that the nine cases of arson resulted in barns, hay bales and farm machinery burning.

A coroner has raised safety concerns after a teenager died while working at a farm less than a month after starting his new job.

The RSPCA, and Yorkshire Swan Rescue Hospital, were alerted after a member of the public spotted the bird in a 'lethargic' condition close to Brunthwaite Swing Bridge.

Officers from Northamptonshire Police’s Rural Crime Team carried out the warrant at the property as part of an investigation into a spate of cable thefts.

County Durham and Darlington Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen has welcomed the latest Rural Crime Report by leading rural insurer NFU Mutual, which shows the cost of rural crime in County Durham fell by almost 30 per cent in 2021 to £260k.

The 53-year-old whose real names is Michael, said: “I was lying in my tent at night and recording a video and I kept hearing some weird noises outside. It was like a guttural growl, but a bit distant and then suddenly got really loud.

County Durham and Darlington Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen has welcomed a new report that shows the county is making rapid progress in its fight against rural crime.

As Fagan was the registered keeper of the vehicle, under the law he is treated as knowingly causing the waste to be deposited, even if he knew nothing about it. In 2020, officers from the rural crime team were first called to reports of fly-tipping on Frodsham marshes in Cheshire.

A man had to face court again after failing to clear the waste he'd flytipped on farmland near Newton Abbot.

An MP has hit back after she was accused of talking down on the work of volunteers and ‘misleading’ the public as she campaigns to clean the River Wear.

Operation Checkpoint looks to prevent and tackle rural acquisitive crime, wildlife and poaching offences.

Civic enforcement officers investigating an incident on New Lane, Heighington, identified the vehicle involved and traced it back to Connor Goslin, of Randolph Street, Coundon and Arron Cole, of Oxford Street, Eldon, in County Durham.