Police in Coleraine are appealing for information, following a report of a cat caught in a trap in the Carey Mill area of Ballycastle on Thursday, 18th May.

Police are investigating the circumstances following the discovery of two dead white-tailed eagles, in the Glenhead Road area of Ballymena on Monday, 15th May.

It comes just days after three fox cubs were found shot dead on a Co Down golf course.

A detective sergeant told Antrim Magistrates Court, sitting in Ballymena, it was the police case that Samuel Todd (38) is an “integral part” of a crime gang responsible for “24 incidents of rural burglaries and thefts” in mid and east Co Antrim.

The fire happened on Monday night in Park vilage

Police believe the gun is linked to the North Antrim UDA

Detectives in Antrim, investigating a number of rural thefts, conducted a search at a property in the Ballyclare area on Thursday 27th April.

More than 22,000 wildlife crimes have been recorded in Northern Ireland in recent years, according to “staggering” new figures.

Police have increased patrols in the Upper Lough Erne area of Fermanagh following disturbances to ground nesting birds by dogs, and are urging members of the public with any information on the issue to make a report.

Detective Superintendent Neill said: “We are 100% committed to putting a stop to this crime; a crime that strikes at the very heart of our rural communities."

A large quantity of suspected class A drugs have been seized by police near Ballyclare.

The arrest is in relation to a possible link with badger baiting and persecution of other animals under the Welfare of Animals Act (NI) 2011.

Boy, aged 14 involved in criminal underworld of NI badger baiting, say USPCA

Michael Scott has gone on trial accused of running over his elderly aunt Christine Treacy at her home in Derryhiney, Ireland, following a long-running land dispute

Farmers have raised a “recurring problem” of gangs of men with dogs going on to farms and threatening livestock.