Rural Life
Speeding driver claims he was rushing to help cow give birth
A restricted driver who admitted doing almost twice his permitted speed, claimed he was in a rush to assist with...
Court
Rural Life
26-year-old's death on Cumbria farm determined to be accidental
The death of 26-year-old who was crushed between a bale and a wall on a Cumbria farm has been determined...
N.Ireland
Farmer caught drink driving says he went to check on damage to tractor
A farmer from Northern Ireland who was caught driving whilst almost twice the legal limit was returning to his yard to...
N.Ireland
Firm fined following death of man at livestock mart
A mart firm has today, Friday, March 13, been fined £12,500 (€13,995) following the death of a man at a...
Environment
Farmer fined in court over silage effluent pollution
A farmer that pleaded guilty to allowing a polluting discharge from his farm to enter a waterway in the Cloughmills...
N.Ireland
Armagh farmer and wife jailed for VAT fraud
A farmer and his wife have been jailed for their role in a £610,000 (€716,000) VAT fraud, after a HM...
N.Ireland
Suspended sentence for farmer sentenced on multiple animal welfare charges
A farmer has been given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to 18 charges relating to animal welfare and...
Rural Life
The end of a nightmare: Great Orme farmer thanks farming community for support
The Great Orme farmer involved in a court case that spectacularly collapsed just days into the trial has issued a...
Rural Life
£1 farm tenant cleared of Trading Standards charges
The Great Orme farmer who won tenancy of the National Trust owned Parc Farm for just £1 has been declared...
Agri-Business
Derbyshire farmer who evaded more than £70,000 of tax sentenced
A Derbyshire farmer, who evaded more than £70,000 of Income Tax contributions, has avoided jail. 62-year-old Barbara Wayne from Grange Mill,...
N.Ireland
UFU’s cross-compliance case against DAERA settled
A second judicial review against DAERA and NIEA, supported by the Ulster Farmers’ Union, on CAP cross-compliance breaches has been...
Rural Life
Agri engineer ordered to pay £8,800 following worker's 3m fall
An agricultural engineer from Devon was recently sentenced after a worker sustained serious, life-changing injuries after a fall from height,...
Environment
Farmers fined over £2,000 for pollution to waterway
Three Coleraine farmers were convicted at Coleraine Magistrates Court on Friday (September 7) for causing two separate discharges of silage...
Rural Life
Farming firm fined £6,000 after 'serious' threshing machine incident
Devon firm Dullam & Co. (Farmers) has been fined today after a worker was dragged into a reed threshing machine....
N.Ireland
Co. Down farmer fined following welfare charges
A Co. Down farmer was today fined and sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for two years, on animal...
N.Ireland
Farmer at centre of neighbour cattle theft case sentenced
By Michael Kenwood A north Down farmer found guilty of stealing five pedigree Holstein heifers from his neighbour’s farm, removing...
N.Ireland
LacPatrick Dairies fined for pollution
LacPatrick Dairies’ Northern Ireland arm was today fined £5,000 at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court after it pleaded guilty to releasing polluting...
N.Ireland
Farmer convicted at Newry Court
A Co. Down farmer has been convicted at Newry Magistrates’ Court of offences relating to animal transport on Monday (April...
