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POLICE and council officers are working together to tackle selfish fly-tippers, after a recent increase in tyre fly-tipping in the Selby area. Members of the public are being urged to support the authorities by reporting fly-tipping offences, so that those responsible can be identified and stopped. There has been a increase in large-scale tyre tips in the Selby district – with around 2,000 tyres dumped in more than 35 separate incidents in the last 12 months alone. PCSO Caroline Saville, of North Yorkshire Police’s Rural Taskforce, said: “Fly-tipping is a source of pollution, a...

Cruel illegal hunters handed Covid fines and kicked out of East Yorkshire A total of seven people from Manchester and the south east were caught in the county carrying out illegal hare coursing Humberside Police clamping down on hare coursers in East Yorkshire (Image: Humberside Police) Cruel illegal hunters from Manchester and the south east have been slapped with Covid fines and booted out of East Yorkshire. Over the weekend a total of seven men have been caught by Humberside Police using dogs to hunt hares. They have been coming from all over England which means they are breaking lockdown ...

The police helicopter, deployed in tackling hare coursing A POLICE helicopter and fixed wing plane have been deployed as part of a police operation against hare coursing in East Yorkshire. Humberside Police said that in recent weeks, the force had seen people travelling to the area each weekend to commit the wildlife crime on private land. "Hare coursing is barbaric and illegal and as a sport is banned," said a spokesperson. "With no regard for the law, criminal gangs are still travelling to our area, despite the national lockdown, and trespassing on private farmland to hunt hares wit...

Walker agrees to pay vet's bill after dog attacks sheep 15 February 2021 | Police have renewed a warning to dog owners after sheep were severely injured A dog owner has agreed to pay the vet’s bill in full after his dog seriously injured sheep in North Yorkshire. Police have issued another warning to the general public after the sheep were severely injured in Dunnington, York. On Monday 8 February, a husky type dog ran through a hedge and into an electric fence into a field, and attacked two sheep. One suffered a severe leg injury, and the other fled until it collapsed with exhaustion.

A DOG owner has agreed to pay the vet’s bill in full after his dog seriously injured a sheep in Dunnington, near York.