N.Ireland
Armagh farmer sentenced for failure to isolate TB reactors
A farmer from Co. Armagh has been sentenced for failure to comply with notice to isolate tuberculosis (TB) reactors. Philip...
Court
Rural Life
Former Derbyshire farmer ordered to pay £24,120 for illegal waste burning
A former farmer from Derbyshire has been ordered to pay a total of £24,120 for two offences of illegally burning...
Other
Farmer fined after worker becomes entangled in potato harvester
A farmer has been fined after a worker suffered multiple injuries after becoming entangled in the contra-rotating rollers of a...
Sheep
Man fined £11,000 for stealing over 600 sheep
A 26-year-old man from Herefordshire has been ordered to pay £11,000 for stealing over 600 sheep from four locations between...
N.Ireland
Armagh farmer convicted of transporting unfit animal
A farmer from Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland has been convicted of one charge of transporting a bovine animal that was...
N.Ireland
Farmer fined for breaching cattle movement regulations
A farmer in Northern Ireland has been convicted and fined in court after pleading guilty to charges relating to the...
Other
Farmer sentenced after walker killed by cattle
A farmer in Lancashire has been sentenced for safety breaches after an 83-year-old man was fatally attacked by cattle on...
N.Ireland
Armagh farmer convicted for transporting emaciated cow
A 52-year-old farmer from Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, has been found guilty of the transportation of a cow which was...
Sheep
Staffordshire farmer fined for animal neglect
A livestock farmer from Staffordshire Moorlands has been fined a total of £1250 and given a 12-month community order for...
N.Ireland
Farmer convicted for transporting an animal unfit for journey
A Northern Ireland farmer has been convicted in court for transporting an animal that was not fit for the journey....
Other
Somerset farmer fined for 2nd time for polluting watercourse
A farmer from Somerset has been fined – for the second time in five years – for polluting a watercourse...
N.Ireland
Armagh farmer fined for failing to notify department of livestock movements
An Armagh farmer has been convicted at Armagh Magistrates Court today (October 4) for two charges relating to livestock movements...
N.Ireland
Former department vet wins tribunal over ‘deleted’ livestock movements
A former vet within the Department of Agriculture's Veterinary Service Animal Health Group has won a landmark action against the...
Environment
Ballymena farm business fined £2,500 for reseeding uncultivated land
A Dungiven farm business has been fined £2,500 in court for ploughing and reseeding uncultivated and without permission. McCloskey Livestock...
Rural Life
Man fined £840 for operating illegal waste site from his home
A 49-year-old man who operated an illegal waste site at Sunnyside, on Barnby Road, Balderton, Newark, has been fined £840...
N.Ireland
Antrim farmer fined £1,500 for animal welfare offence
A Co. Antrim farmer has been fined £1,500 after it was discovered he transported an animal to an abattoir that...
Environment
Man jailed for 12 months after being convicted of illegal waste burning
A Northumberland man has been jailed for illegally dumping and waste burning on rural land following an investigation by the...
Environment
North Devon company fined for pollution that devastated fish population
The North Devon company that caused a pollution incident leading to a devastating fish kill on the River Mole near...
