This is the aftermath of a nasty crash that happened near Cirencester yesterday (Tuesday).

A 21-year-old man has been sentenced after leading police on a high-speed pursuit through North Yorkshire countryside before having his tyres blown out by a stinger.

The driver, a 23-year-old man, was subsequently placed in handcuffs and arrested on suspicion of burglary.

More thieves have been thwarted as rural police in have found two trailers thought to have been stolen.

The outbuilding at the property in a rural location in Rushmere - between Lowestoft and Beccles - was broken into in the early hours of Wednesday, October 26.

Rural crime police have circulated an image of a van this morning after suspicious activity was reported around farms in Wrexham.

Despite the damage to the car, the driver managed to avoid serious injury, sustaining just a cut to the arm.

The tractor is a blue compact Landlegend Dong Feng.

Firefighters were called at 2:10pm this afternoon (Wednesday, October 26) to the Westgate Ford, near Stanhope, in Weardale, after a person in a Volkswagen got into difficulties.

Officers from Bradford Council’s Environmental Enforcement Team worked with Keighley Neighbourhood Wardens and the local police scoured local fly tipping enforcement cameras and found the vehicle driving to the quiet country lane late at night, dumping its load.

Travelling criminals across the Scotland-England border have been targeted in a joint operation.

An investigation was launched shortly after 10.30pm on Wednesday (October 19) after thieves stole two all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) from a farm near Morpeth.

A team of specialist officers from East Bassetlaw Police, which serves Retford and its surrounding villages, caught the two men independently of each other on quiet country lanes.

Seven vehicles were taken off the road during an overnight policing operation in Bassetlaw.

OFFICERS in the Forest were the first to test out a new support vehicle for rural communities as part of action to make police more “visible on the streets” of Gloucestershire.

Colin Martin Fowler, aged 58, Trenoweth Farm, Gweek, Helston was due to appear for sentencing today (Thursday) at Truro Magistrates' Court after being proved in his absence at a trial on September 28 to which he also failed to appear.

Shocking footage of a car overtaking a tractor and driving into the path of an oncming car is just one of the examples shared by Devon and Cornwall Police.

Police are asking the public to make it 'too hot to handle' by sharing the photo far and wide.

A pair of stolen quad bikes found by Dorset Police is the latest win for the rural police team.

Officers from the road crime team of Nottinghamshire Police visited an address in Flintham Lane, Screveton, in Rushcliffe, at around 1.40pm on Tuesday afternoon after a trailer, reported missing from Costock, was spotted in a field by a police drone.

Police in south Shropshire have appealed to quad bike owners to make their property more difficult to steal following a spike in thefts in the Bishop's Castle area.

A tractor driver did not have permission to pass over a level crossing when an oncoming train crashed into a bale chaser he was towing, a report has said.

Farm pick-up trucks have become a growing target for rural thieves, with the number stolen more than doubling, according to insurer NFU Mutual.

Specialist teams - including the Rural Task Force, Neighbourhood Policing Teams and Operational Support Unit - are running targeted operations in rural areas and around the county’s borders.

The Rural Crime Team quickly took action and ascertained that this vehicle was on cloned plates.

Police are trying to locate two vintage tractors after they were stolen from a barn near Landford.

Police are now warning farmers and owners of agricultural equipment in the area to be on their guard against potential thefts.

He is one of several suspects arrested this week as officers work “round the clock” to keep communities safe and catch offenders.

Fed-up homeowners in rural County Durham are said to be ‘fed up’ at having to contend with the off-road bikes that are taking over parks, green space, and even people’s gardens, as the police look to tackle the anti-social behaviour.

Five quad bikes have been stolen in the past eight weeks, all from the Meirionydd area, as well as 10 gates and sheep hurdles over this past weekend in the Denbigh moors area.

A Kubota RTV-X1140 utility vehicle and a Kubota tractor were stolen, as well as a number of chainsaws and power cutters.

One recent incident included the recovery of a stolen quad bike which was taken as a farmer worked his land and just 24 WhatsApp messages later, was recovered and the suspect arrested.

It was stolen from Easton Way at around 7.30pm on Friday October 7.

The Rural Crime Action team were on patrol in West Huntingdonshire at around 5.30pm on Saturday (October 8). They saw a van between Sawtry and Hamerton coming down a farm track onto the road

Devon and Cornwall Police said three similar systems were also stolen from tractors in North Devon, overnight on September 16.

A Suffolk conservationist has said he might not be able to continue with a wildlife preservation project after thieves stole his agricultural vehicles worth £8,000.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said that two people in the car were injured – one seriously – and both had been taken to hospital.

The team regularly patrol our rural road network and carry out road safety speed checks while they are doing so. The majority of vehicles seized in the past nine months – 77 – have been cars and vans found to be uninsured.

Theft claims dealt with so far this year by NFU Mutual show that older Toyota Hilux and Mitsubishi L200 are the most regularly targeted pick-up models.

In total 42 items were seized last week - this included two tractors, 15 agricultural and plant trailers, a quad bike, three Land Rovers, and other farm machinery.

On Wednesday, September 28, officers from the Humberside Police Rural Task Force executed a warrant at a farm in Haisthorpe, alongside the neighbourhood policing team and Operation Galaxy following a reported theft.

Investigating officer PC Colin Boyes, from the Thames Valley Police Rural Crime Taskforce, said: “I am appealing to anyone who witnessed or knows anything about this incident to please come forward.

Police are hunting the pair on this quad bike after a cyclist was hit in the Peak District just outside Sheffield.

A Land Rover driver "caused carnage" on the M5 as his trailer littered the road with wooden posts.

A tractor driver has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving after a car was destroyed in a collision with a tractor outside a Suffolk airbase.

Two 4x4s have been reported stolen and a there is a reported theft from a vehicle in Kirkby Thore. These incidents are currently being investigated.

Our officers stopped a vehicle full of scrap when out on patrol in Alston.
This vehicle was known to us due to previous intelligence provided to us by the public.
The driver was found to be wearing no seatbelt and they had no scrap licence for Eden.

Good news this morning (Thursday) for a farmer in Somerset as police have found their stolen tractor.

Rural thieves are targeting farm pick-up trucks with more than twice as many of the workhorses being stolen each month than in 2021, worrying new figures show.

A man then ran off from the police in a tractor and smashed into three police cars causing significant damage to the vehicles but no injury to the officers. The man was later apprehended and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remains in custody.