{"id":780002,"date":"2026-09-23T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780002\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:30:12","slug":"clarksons-farm-sheep-theft-turns-out-to-be-a-miscount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780002\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson&#8217;s Farm sheep &#8216;theft&#8217; turns out to be a miscount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, Clarkson appealed for those responsible for the alleged theft to &#8220;put them back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told The Sun that he believed the sheep were worth more than \u00a32,000 at market, and added that he was worried some in other fields of his farm may have also been stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Diddly Squat Farm has gained global attention as the focal point of the Amazon Prime Video series Clarkson&#8217;s Farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Grand Tour host told the newspaper the alleged theft had been done at night or during a day when the farm was not being filmed for the show, when he said there was &#8220;a film crew here all the time&#8221; and &#8220;a drone in the air&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked whether he believed the show had made his farm a target, Clarkson said: &#8220;It&#8217;s more likely to make you a target than less, but I still don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve been stolen because they&#8217;re on Diddly Squat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;How can you (stop it) if someone&#8217;s determined to steal your livestock?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is 1,000 acres, it&#8217;s a big farm. Anyone could be anywhere and you wouldn&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, Clarkson appealed for those responsible for the alleged theft to &#8220;put them back&#8221;. He told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}