Shut the gate on rural crime and follow our advice on hare coursing:
Hare Coursing
The Hunting Act 2004 made hare coursing illegal.
Hare coursing tends to start after harvest, around the end of August or start of September when large tracts of land are left without standing crops.
Coursing is more likely to take place at dawn or dusk.
The most obvious sign is a group of vehicles parked in a rural area, perhaps by a gateway to farmland, on a grass verge, on a farm track or bridle path.
There will usually be estate cars, four wheel drives or vans. They may contain evidence of dogs insid