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A farmer from Northamptonshire who had a trailer stolen from his farmyard says the police aren't bothered about rural crime. Pete Walton farms at Brixworth and tracked down the trailer himself, eventually getting it back.

The insurer NFU Mutual says rural crime is actually down in Northamptonshire, but it still cost the county nearly 拢700,000 last year.

Reporter Tom Percival talks to Pete Walton, while Stuart talks to Will Howell from NFU Mutual, to Kevin Shapland, who organises the annual Rural Crime Conference in Northamptonshire, to David Nicholas from Yelvertoft Oil Buying Consortium, and to Inspector Faye Tennant from Northamptonshire Police.

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