Firefighters had to save two cows after they got trapped in a slurry pit on a farm in Cornwall. Teams were called to the emergency on Saturday morning after the animals got stuck in the 4m (13ft) deep ...

An unlucky foraging badger fell into the pit with no way of exiting and was discovered by Anglian Water workers A badger had to be rescued after it fell into a slurry pit at a sewage works and was ...

A farmer who built a stinking slurry 'lagoon' the size of two Olympic swimming pools without permission must now remove it after a Devon council rejected his retrospective plans. The large pit, at ...

A Quebec coroner is urging the province's professional farmers' association to increase efforts to educate its members on the dangers of slurry pits. Coroner Nancy Bouchard made the recommendation in ...

A badger had to be rescued after it fell into a slurry pit at a sewage works and was unable to escape. Volunteers from the North East Essex Badger Group were called to the site in the Braintree area ...