A West Dorset smallholder has been ordered to pay £530 and is banned from keeping poultry and pigs for ten years after causing unnecessary suffering to chickens following a court hearing in Weymouth. On 17 September 2018, at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, Richard Thomas Hansford, aged 67, of Weymouth pleaded guilty… Read More
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Caught bangers to rights
A Cotswold farmer who allowed his pigs access to sausages has been banned from keeping pigs and cattle for five years. At Cheltenham Magistrates Court on Monday (9th July) Clive Lockton, of New Road Farm, Todenham, was disqualified having previously pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to the appalling welfare… Read More