Police officers seized dogs, a car and equipment after being called to Halsall over the weekend.

What is Coursing?Originally, this was a hunting or competitive activity where dogs (primarily sight hounds) were made to ...

It is the time of year many arable farmers dread. Crops are safely stored in the barn, provided you escaped the rain, but hare coursers are out in force. Large tracts of stubble after harvest are an ...

One Cambridgeshire farmer, Mathew Latta, last year experienced an invasion of hare coursing participants who drove through his farm and unleashed dogs onto the hares. He told the BBC that he was ...

Police said the "terrified" female lurcher was so badly injured she had to be put down A man superglued and stapled his dog's face together so he could use it to commit further crimes in Lincolnshire, ...

Cambridgeshire Police's chief constable previously apologised for what he described as a failure to deal with rural crime Four people - including a13-year-old boy - have pleaded guilty to being ...

Defra is giving the National Wildlife Crime Unit £530,000 to tackle hare coursing in 2026/27, yet admits it cannot measure a crime that is not notifiable.

Five dogs suspected of being used for hare coursing have been seized by police. Cambridgeshire Police said neighbourhood and rural crime team officers tracked a black Mitsubishi Shogun, which was ...

The NFU has called for a coordinated crackdown on hare coursing as gangs spread to new areas and 22 dead hares were left in rows on a Kent farm.

Poachers and legal coursers join forces to oppose the ban Illegal poachers and legal hare coursers have rarely seen eye to eye, but the Hunting Bill which takes effect in February 2005, has united ...

The High Court has been told it is “unsafe in the current climate” to allow coursing take place and the Government is fully entitled not to allow the sport go ahead. It is untrue to say coursing is ...