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West Mercia Police say the illegal activity, linked to other crime, is horrible and has to stop.

The men had all pleaded guilty to trespass with intent to pursue hares with dogs in East Yorkshire.

40 hares were tracked using GPS-radio collars for six months in an effort to test the impact of coursing and their movement to a different, often unfamiliar, location

There have been calls for the practice of hare coursing to be banned

Hampshire police have issued an appeal after a dog killed a lamb at a farm in Fareham.

Date back centuries. it was banned in 2005, but in recent years has increasingly involved criminal gangs. i have been briefed and seen at the national crime agency hare coursing being live streamed into china, where people are betting tens of thousands of dollars on whichever dog is going to catch the hare first. so it is seriously big business, and those people who are doing it are often serious, serious criminals, who are involved in county lines, in modern—day slavery, all sorts of other cr...

Windy in scotland and northern ireland. back to you both. every autumn, the blood sport known as hare coursing brings waves of crime to rural communities — thats despite it being illegal in the uk since 2005. police say the activity, where dogs are used to chase, catch and kill hares, has been growing in recent years. now new technology is being introduced in an effort to clamp down on the criminal gangs responsible, as dan obrien reports from wiltshire. wiltshires rural crime team patrol sali...

They have thermal cap cameras and drones to help chase the people behind it. wiltshires rural crime team patrol salisbury plain, they are on the look out for the new season of an illegal blood sport bringing organised crime, threats and criminal damage to rural communities. wiltshires farmers know only too well what hare—coursing involves. it is people who chase hares across the land, using either dogs or 4x4, and they can stream it live on the internet for people anywhere in the world, to sta...

Six men have received Criminal Behaviour Orders after pleading guilty to attending and participating in a hare coursing event in Bedford.

AN APPEAL has been launched for descriptions of people and dogs being used in hare coursing to be passed on to police.