Long winter nights bring rural crime warning

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Farmers have been advised to review their security measures as criminals in the countryside take advantage of the longer nights to target rural businesses. Ed Henderson reports.Rural crime is an unrelenting nuisance for farmers - be it fly-tippers, thieves stalking farmyards to pilfer expensive kit or fuel, rustlers brazenly stealing livestock, or poachers wrecking fields and gates.There is concern that the cost-of-living crisis will prompt even more theft of high-value items from farms this winter that can be sold on the black market, such as diesel or livestock.