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THE PSNI HAS warned that current sheep prices are making farmers a “target for criminals” after the theft of sheep and lambs in Co Derry and Co Antrim last week.
In Co Antrim, a “significant number of sheep” were stolen from land in the Hamillstown Lane area of Portglenone on Sunday.
Portglenone is a village close to Ballymena and a PSNI spokesperson said it’s believed that the incident happened between 12pm on Saturday and 9am on Sunday morning.
The spokesperson added that it represents a “huge financial loss to the owner responsible for the sheep” and noted that similar thefts have happened in recent months and in recent days.
“The current prices sheep are attracting, although good news for the farming industry, does then lend itself as being a target for criminals intent on making money from their criminality,” said the PSNI spokesperson.
The spokesperson remarked that the prevention of this sort of rural crime “needs the cooperation from farmers and the wider rural community by taking proactive safety measures to ensure their flock is secure at all times”.
The PSNI is appealing to or anyone who may have observed suspicious activity, or spotted any unknown vehicles such as large trailers in the Portglenone area in the last few days, to contact them.
Meanwhile, police in the North are investigating a separate incident in which 50 lambs were stolen from a field in Co Derry.
The Texel and Suffolk-bred ewe lambs, which have orange markings, are reported to have been taken from a field on Teenaght Road in Claudy sometime between 7pm on Thursday, 25 January and 7am on Friday 26 January.
A PSNI spokesperson said: “To transport these lambs anywhere would have required a trailer and so we are keen to hear from anyone who was in the Teenaght Road area between the reported times, or earlier in the week, and saw any suspicious activity or unfamiliar vehicles.”
Similar rural crime was reported in November, when a “substantial number of sheep” were stolen from a field in Coleraine in Co Derry.
A 6 year old could have written that report , based on visual lockdown & hearsay
@Gerry Glynn: Because every 6 year old would have access to those figures. Great comment Gerry.
In terms of household waste- all disposable waste should have very simple labelling as to what bin to put things into. Eg Green/Grey/Brown. This would be very useful for a lot of people who just aren’t sure!
I think there’s a positive message to be learned from this and that’s to get away from car dependency and the 40-hour work week and our excessive consumption of meat.
We should be working less as a result of technological advances yet we were working harder for longer hours than ever before the lockdown and having to go on longer and longer commutes to get to our places of work.
The lockdown showed us that most of the jobs we were doing aren’t even essential and that the people who do the most essential work are often the worst paid.
There are so many positive lessons to be learned but the government seem determined to get things back to the way we were.
I realise not everyone will agree with this as many people thing the economy is the most important thing and that working in an office is the route to happiness and fulfillment.
@Fifty Shades of Sé: Vote #1 for Fifty Shades of Sé.
The mountain of plastic bottles from sanitizer gel /spray now in landfill or whatever poor country is now being used as recycling dump will surely cause an ecological problem!
I’d say there would be a pile the size of Mount Everest !
I initially thought it wasn’t included at all and eventually saw it buried in the graphics section, but the collapse in the number of flights must have had a huge environmental impact.
The country is overpopulated if we’re not meeting emissions targets otherwise we’ll have to live like the Flintstones
@Gerard Heery: The country isn’t overpopulated, people just aren’t willing to change how we do things or pay what is needed to meet our commitments.
For years we have racked up debts to pay for a more convenient lifestyle (Cars, convenience, meat every day etc.), now the bill is arriving, everyone is pointing fingers and shirking our responsibility to pay.
And when I say pay I don’t mean just money, it’s also lifestyle choices.
In terms of household waste- all disposable waste should have very simple labelling as to what bin to put things into. Eg Green Black or Brown Bin. This would be very useful for a lot of people who just aren’t sure!
In terms of household waste, all disposable waste should have very simple labelling as to what bin to put things into Eg Green Black or Brown Bin. This would be very useful for a lot of people who just aren’t sure!
“glass bottle intake” up 46%… yup.
@thesaltyurchin: Imagine the waste if Cannabis was legal!… oh wait.
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