Three men were sent home with COVID-19 FPNs after being stopped by police poaching patrols in North Yorkshire. At about 10am on Sunday 24 January 2021 , police were called with a report that a blue Subaru Impreza was involved in poaching activity in the rural Bedale area. North Yorkshire Police officers attended immediately, and […]

Thames Valley Police has made six arrests in connection with incidents of hare coursing in Hungerford. The arrests are in connection with incidents in Churchwood Wickham, Hungerford Hill, and nearby at Shefford Woodlands, Lambourn, shortly before 3.30pm on Saturday 16 January in which groups of males with lurcher dogs were reported to be acting suspiciously […]

A trio of hare coursers who caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a farmer’s crops have been hit with more than £1000 in total fines. Jimmy Cole, 43, Chase Loveridge, 36, and Levi Cole, 20, were spotted driving a silver Land Rover across a field near Cambridge Road, in Fowlmere, at about noon on […]

Five men were given Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices and are being investigated for poaching offences after being stopped by police in the North Stainmore area at the weekend. The men were all from different addresses in Carlisle but had travelled in the same car to North Stainmore.   The incident was reported to police shortly before […]

  Three men have been released under investigation after reports of two separate hare coursing incidents in Wiltshire. At approximately 9.45am on January 17, officers were contacted by local Farm Watch members in Wexcombe, near Marlborough who reported possible hare coursing the area. Shortly after, officers stopped two men travelling in a silver Vauxhall Insignia. […]