The RSPCA has launched an investigation after a seriously injured dog staggered into a garden in Bradford and ‘collapsed in a pool of blood’.

Reports on social media said items were "all over the road" and residents were warned to watch out in the dark.

West Yorkshire Police are investigating a fatal collision in the Worth Valley village of Oakworth on the night of May 5.

The owner of pet cockerel has spoken out after she found her pet dumped in a stream after it was strangled.

Officers were told they were doing an 'egg shellent' job

Rural Police have issued an update amid reports of cats "being shot" in West Yorkshire.

A FARMER has voiced his disgust at a mountain of rubbish that blights a busy Bradford road near his farm.

West Yorkshire Police's Wildlife & Rural Crime Team helped the RSPCA with a wildlife and animal cruelty warrant last Thursday.

Farmers in the East Riding of Yorkshire are being hit by thieves targeting valuable GPS systems on their machinery.

TWO councils are cracking down on "louts" who have "blighted a beauty spot" with hundreds of fly-tipped tyres on the Bradford/Calderdale border.

Thefts of agricultural machinery and equipment - especially quad bikes - have ramped up as highly organised criminal gangs move to targeting rural areas with the lifting of Covid lockdown restrictions and a developing cost of living crisis.

A crackdown on nuisance and anti-social motor vehicles continues in Halifax as police track down those responsible.

Around 400 metres of moorland in the Pule Hill and Intake Head area is alight and West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service are at the scene.

Andrew Chalk, rural insurance specialist at NFU Mutual, said: “As the UK’s main insurer of the countryside, many of our customers rely on heating oil and sadly, recent reports are suggesting a rise in thefts from rural homes and farms.

Requiring quad bike riders on public highways to wear helmets would “make the law consistent with other similar vehicles”, a Labour MP has suggested.