A yearling found frightened and badly entangled in baler twine at the side of the road is well on her way to recovery after arriving at World Horse Welfare's Penny Farm Rescue and Rehoming Centre near Blackpool two weeks ago.

World Horse Welfare today releases perhaps our most hard-hitting film to date showing the tragic story of a mare called Rhoswyn and our efforts to help her.

Equine obesity is an increasing but under-recognised welfare issue in the UK.

While dozens of flood warnings remain in place across the UK, it is not just people that bear the brunt of the drastic weather.

When Haggis was found he was riddled with lice, grossly overweight and showing signs of laminitis, an extremely painful and sometimes fatal condition affecting horses’ hooves.

In a joint operation led by the RSPCA, 111 equines were removed from Spindles Farm in January 2008.

Twenty ponies rescued from a scrap yard can finally look forward to a happy and secure future, thanks to the hard work of World Horse Welfare.

25 thin and neglected foals, stallions and pregnant mares were removed from an isolated farm in Aberdeenshire.