A tractor driver was unharmed despite a tractor towing a trailer bursting into flames on a Devon road yesterday (Tuesday, July 12).

Trailer theft has increased by 69% during 2022 and is expected to rise further due to high demand and reports of trailers selling at inflated prices.

Police are appealing for information following the theft of the high-value equipment in Larling overnight on Sunday.

A quad bike and machinery were among items stolen from a farm in Brough.

Police in Ryedale say they are appealing for witnesses, information and possible sightings after a black Mitsubishi L200 single cab pickup truck – registration MG11 EKY - was stolen from a farmyard in the Great Barugh area of Ryedale.

Motor owners are being urged to be on their guard after a high-value motor was snatched in a keyless car theft.

Update – detectives have travelled to Wales to interview two men after a horse trailer was recovered near Banbury. The men were discovered at the ferry port in Pembrokeshire.

THIEVES who dumped and torched two stolen vans have causing substantial damage to an area of the New Forest.

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

Information and witnesses are being sought after the incident at Runs Bank, Bellerby.

A 28-year-old man from Bishop Auckland has been arrested after a livestock trailer worth £6,000 was recovered as part of a cross-border crackdown on rural crime.

Four teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of stealing quad bikes and tractors in Malmesbury.

A lucky horse owner will be able to transport their animal again after Banbury police recovered their stolen trailer.

Price initially claimed he bought it from scrap men in a pick-up van he flagged down in Woodhouses, near Bishop Auckland, but in a subsequent police interview gave mostly “no comment” replies.

Costly farm machinery has been stolen in a spree of burglaries affecting rural areas.

To ensure Thames Valley area remains a hostile environment for criminals to operate, the TVP rural crime taskforce have been spot checking vehicles throughout the region.

Devon and Cornwall Police have issued an image of the Ford 5000 tractor that was stolen from the Jacobstowe area of Okehampton.

A farmer wants the police to take more action to recover his stolen tractor after he was alerted that a man who bought it was attempting to register it with the DVLA.

Two suspected burglars accused of stealing quad bikes from a farm near Morpeth have been arrested.

Laimutis Beleckas, 21, and 27-year-old Eimantas Zemreta, both of Gravesend in Kent, appeared at Taunton Deane Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 21 June, both charged with one count of theft from a motor vehicle and one count of theft of a bike.

Police are appealing for information following reported thefts from motor vehicles in the Cleator Moor area.

Stolen from the Swansea area of Wales on 5th July 2022

The incident occurred outside a property on Park Avenue, Barrow, between 9pm and 10pm, on Thursday 30th June. The incident involved two men.

OFFICERS investigating a high value burglary at a building site have issued image of some of the stolen items.

Dyfed-Powys Police's Rural Crime Team say they have already recovered some items, including a minibus, Land Rover, quad and scrambler, which were taken from the Rhayader area.

Harvest is the season when machines and staff are operating at maximum capacity, and whether bringing in cereals, root crops, forage or straw, it is important not to cut corners when it comes to haulage from field to farm yard.

Sussex Police Rural Crime Team said officers responded after a group of trespassers inside a machinery barn were reportedly caught on CCTV.

Suspected stolen vehicles, caravans and plant machinery were found after police raided a caravan site as part of a major operation.

A VAN suspected to have been involved in fly-tipping in Dorset has been seized by police.

An officer of the Devon and Cornwall Roads Policing Team reprimanded the driver for the danger that the stone posed since it could fall off the trailer and hurt - or even kill - other drivers.

Superintendent Andy Huddleston, rural crime lead for Northumbria Police, said: “This was an excellent piece of work by the PCs who saw something was not quite right and acted decisively.

Devon and Cornwall Police have issued an image of the Ford 5000 tractor that was stolen from the Jacobstowe area of Okehampton.

MEMBERS of the public are being asked to help track down a quad bike thief after an early morning burglary in Wrexham.

Both trailers were carrying 17 hay bales, which weigh a ton each, meaning each trailer was carrying 17 tonnes.

MEMBERS of the public are being asked to help track down a quad bike thief after an early morning burglary in Wrexham.

Ongoing complaints surrounding 'nuisance' off-road motorcycles have prompted high-visibility police patrols.

Farmers have been told to boost security to protect GPS kits this harvest season, as the cost of claims for this type of theft almost doubled in 2020.

Raiders ransacked a rural Wombourne home for £10,000 worth of tools and diesel. The culprits struck at an address on Wodehouse Lane in the Staffordshire village.

A farm in North Somerset has had a trailer and other equipment stolen on the night of June 21.

The Claas tractor overturned, coming to rest on its side on the B4228 near St Briavels in the Forest of Dean.

Officers also seized a stack of about 25 number plates at the site

A Car has ploughed into the front of a house in a quiet County Durham VIllage.

A MAN was pronounced dead after emergency services were called to an incident involving a tractor in a “precarious position” in a Somerset village.

We were called to reports that three mini Bobcat diggers and one 3.5 tonne Kubota digger were stolen from the Boundary Lane area at some point between 10.30pm on Wednesday 8 June and 2.20am today (9 June). The mini diggers are white, red and black, and the larger one is black and orange.

Police in Chichester are investigating a burglary in which two electric bikes worth around £6,000 were stolen.

Officers in Stroud are appealing for witnesses and information following the theft of a Land Rover in Wotton Under Edge.

Thieves have managed to steal a nine-tonne Volvo excavator from roadworks on an A road in North Yorkshire.

Officers from Dorset Police Rural Crime team went to an unnamed location in West Dorset yesterday (Friday, June 10).

Red Honda 500 quad bike stolen between 12-5am this morning (Friday 10th June 2022) from the Darlington area, #NorthEast England.

Lane one of the westbound carriageway of the A30 just after Roseworthy is currently closed due to the breakdown.