Thieves steal sheep worth £20,000

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More than 100 sheep worth a total of about £20,000 have been stolen from a farm near Ballygally in County Antrim.

Some of the sheep were of a rare black-face breed.

The owner, former Ulster Farmers' Union president Campbell Tweed, said he had found that internal gates and a gate leading to the road had been opened.

Mr Tweed said he was "totally sickened" by the theft. Several of the black-face ewes, he said, were pregnant and ready for lambing.

"Everything was in confusion. Whenever we got them sorted out, 15 of the ewes, which are black-face ewes carrying black-face lambs that are right on top of lambing, had gone with, we think, about 90 hoggets."