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...
Court
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...
N.Ireland
Man convicted of failing to provide BVD sample
A Co. Down man has pleaded guilty to the offence of failing to provide a Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) sample from...
N.Ireland
Farmer convicted for failing to notify movement of animals
A Co. Down farmer has been convicted of 24 charges of failure to notify the movement of animals onto his...
Environment
Tamworth potato processor fined over £21,000 for pollution incident that killed over 450 fish
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted Edima Holdings Ltd. – a Tamworth potato processing company – for causing a pollution...
N.Ireland
Armagh farmer convicted of animal welfare breaches and fined £6765
A Co. Armagh farmer has been convicted of three charges relating to animal welfare, fined a total of £6765 and...
Rural Life
Farmer fined £1,300 after leaky silage clamp kills over 400 fish in a river
More than 400 fish were killed because a Dorset farm owner was unaware effluent from his silage clamp was discharging...
Rural Life
Farmer ordered to pay more than £30,000 for ploughing historically important fields
Braunton tenant-farmer Andrew Cooper has been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for ploughing historically important fields linked to prehistoric...
Environment
Co. Down fisherman fined for sowing uncultivated land
Co. Down fisherman Geoffrey Chambers (63) of Moneydarragh Road in Annalong was fined a total of £2,500 for sowing and...
Rural Life
Farmer fined £2,000 for spreading sewage on neighbours land
The Environment Agency is reminding operators to take precautions to ensure the correct processes are in place when spreading on...
Environment
Man fined for breaches of waste management legislation
A man from Co. Down was issued with a fine of £2,000 for breaches of waste management legislation, according to...
Rural Life
Disqualified farmer guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to sheep
A disqualified farmer in Gloucestershire has pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a sheep which inspectors found dead on...
Machinery
JCB to appeal French court ruling on patent breaches
JCB has announced its intentions to appeal a French court's ruling on patent breaches against Manitou. On February 26, 2021,...
