Harry Abonyi, 11, was cycling with his dad Martin in a forest near the south Yorkshire village of Cantley on Wednesday evening and his father says a big cat 'darted' towards the boy.

A quad biker was airlifted to hospital after being involved in a hit and run collision with a BMW.

Two people have been held by police after they were found carrying a gun in a Yorkshire nature reserve.

Livestock owners are being warned that one of the costliest crimes to the farming industry, sheep thefts, could become a trend as consumers struggle with increases in the cost of living, higher fuel prices and higher food prices in the supermarket.

Staff at a local business had originally alerted officers that it was missing at 4.15am, leading to a two-hour search of the nearby area.

A female swan was killed and another male bird is recovering after being peppered with pellets in a shotgun attack by yobs in South Yorkshire.

On 27 January we received a call to report a burglary at a property in Hatfield Woodhouse. It is believed that offenders gained access to the property between 2pm and 6pm.

Officers from the force’s Off-Road Bike Intervention Team (ORBIT) have released these images of a group of people they would like to speak to in connection with a reported incident of assault and criminal damage.

Inspector Alison Carr from South Yorkshire Police’s Doncaster East Neighbourhood Team said: “Thanks to reports from the public as these thefts were happening last week, we were able locate and arrest a suspect, and recover over 25 stolen drainage covers.

South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings has raised concerns about the potential return of fracking, claiming it would lead to protests that place “a huge demand” on police forces.

Matthew Vann, 26, of The Boulevard, Edenthorpe, Ellie Scorer, 21, of Tennyson Road, Bentley, and Lewis Hill, 21, of Bentley Road, Bentley, appeared at Bridlington Magistrates Court on Monday.

Three Doncaster poachers have been convicted after being found guilty of hunting with dogs which saw a deer savaged to death

A bunch of "not so clever" amateur thieves have been slammed by a local farmer after they stole the world's slowest single use motor vehicle at a local farm last week.

A land Rover driver was left embarrassed after having to "beg a local farmer to help" pull him out of a particularly boggy patch of a field he was driving to navigate across.

POLICE patrols have been stepped-up in the Worth Valley after a string of quad bike thefts – mainly from farms.