During the 12-month rampage the gang also stole farm machinery, including almost £400,000 worth of tractors in one night in Cassington, Oxfordshire.

A new rural crime task force has seized a trailer at Marcham they suspect is stolen.

Theft of agricultural machinery can have significant impacts on rural communities, with criminals often using local road networks to transport stolen items.

More than £400,000 worth of trailers, caravans and other equipment have been recovered by the team.

Thames Valley Police Rural Crime Taskforce are looking for the owner of a Kuota bicycle, which is suspected to be stolen.

Illegal encampment have also been addressed. It is now a criminal offence if people who do not leave when asked to do so by the landowner or tenant.

Investigating officer PC Bowers, of the Rural Crime Taskforce, based at Cowley police station said: “We would like to appeal to anybody who recognises the men in these images to please get in touch as we believe they may have information in connection with this incident.

Conservative MP Rob Butler raised concerns over people encroaching on to land owned by farmers in his constituency of Aylesbury to catch and kill hares with dogs.

Officers from Thames Valley Police’s Rural Crime Taskforce were called to the farm, near Uffington, to attend a report of a burglary yesterday.

Thames Valley Police Rural Crime Taskforce stopped, searched and arrested a man suspected of supplying class A drugs, being in possession of criminal property, and of 'further offences'.

Thames Valley Police West Berkshire said that one dog was seized when the male was arrested for offences related to badgers.

More than 6,000 instances of flytipping were recorded in Oxfordshire last year, costing taxpayers.

The farm manager of Blenheim Estate has launched a new campaign ahead of lambing season urging the public to keep their dogs under control at all times.

PC Ryan Dollery, of the Rural Crime Task Force, said: “I am pleased with the sentence given to Goves as he was a persistent offender targeting petrol stations.”

Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, a Chipping Norton man has been sentenced for multiple theft offences in Oxfordshire.