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 potential danger to public health and a hazard to wildlife. It also undermines legitimate waste businesses who operate within the law.
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.
Police seek woman after dog attack POLICE are investigating a livestock attack in which a sheep was pinned to the ground by a dog. North Yorkshire Police say that on Tuesday (February 9), a woman was seen walking her dog on a public footpath in New Road in Drax near Selby when the dog, which was off the lead, ran across to a field full of sheep enclosed in electric fencing. A police spokesman said: The dog pinned one of the sheep to the ground. The woman then went into the field and dragged the dog out. When challenged by a farm worker, she returned to her car and drove off.
Police hand hare coursers Covid-19 fixed penalty notices
1 February 2021 |
The three poachers were reported for breaching Covid-19 regulations
Three hare coursers have been handed Covid-19 fixed penalty notices after they were stopped by police patrols in North Yorkshire.
Police were called on 24 January to a report that a blue Subaru Impreza was involved in poaching activity in the rural Bedale area.
The men told North Yorkshire Police they had come from County Durham to North Yorkshire to buy a dog at a service station.
All three were reported for breaching Covid-19 regulations, and issued with a dispersal order requiring them to leave the Hambleton and Richmondshire areas immediately.