UPDATE: Turnip the abandoned horse has sadly passed away.

Last week, we brought you the awful news that a horse had been callously abandoned on Quibell's Lane, Newark on Thursday morning.

He was found by Severn Trent workers and volunteers from local charity Help for Horses took him in and desperately tried to save his life he is (pictured below resting at the charity's stables).

They named him Turnip and while he initially seemed to be improving over the weekend, his condition sadly deteriorated and he died yesterday. He was thought to be around just six or seven months old.

Janice Dixon, who runs the charity, said: "Turnip tried so hard for four days and we thought he was making progress at the weekend as he was eating and drinking for himself and, once helped up, could stand unassisted.

"But unfortunately it was all too much for him and we will never know how long he’d been lying helpless in that field before he was found."

Janice has now set up an online petition to urge the Government to enforce all horse breeders to be licensed.

She said: "The law has recently changed to force all dog breeders to have a license, and we need the same legislation in place for horse breeders too."

You can sign Janice's online petition by clicking here.