POLICE are requesting residents of a rural dale to keep their eyes peeled for a missing tractor. 
Officers from Crook Police are asking Weardale residents to keep an eye out for a tractor that was stolen at the weekend. 
The theft occurred at a farm in Frosterley sometime overnight between Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1. 
It is described as a red and black Case IH with yellow front tyres and is similar to the one pictured. 
Police are requesting that anyone who has seen the tractor or has information of the theft contact PC Tinkler from Bishop Auckland response on 101 quoting incident number 101 of November 1.

Andrea Stephenson, director of FarmWatcherUK, the UK's number one rural crime alert network said: "Any type of rural crime is distressing for the farmer but essential tools such as tractors and quad bikes, when stolen, present difficulties in the day to day running of a farm."