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28 March 2008
BURGLAR GOES MISSING FROM LEYHILL JAIL
POLICE are hunting a man who is on the run from Leyhill Open Prison(pictured) in South Gloucestershire.
27 March 2008
FILTON TARGET OF DRUGS CRACKDOWN
18 March 2008
WOMAN AND BOYFRIEND ATTACKED IN BAG SNATCH ATTEMPT
18 March 2008
MIKE TINDALL ALLEGEDLY STOPPED BY POLICE FOR DRINK-DRIVING
GLOUCESTER Rugby have made a limited comment over reports and allegations that their England international centre Mike Tindall (pictured) was arrested on Saturday for drink-driving.
18 March 2008
MAN LEFT WITH FRACTURED SKULL AFTER ATTACK
17 March 2008
MAN DIES IN MOTORWAY ACCIDENT
14 March 2008
FIND MISSING TEENAGER
10 March 2008
DRIVER URGED TO CONTACT POLICE AFTER ONE OF WEST'S WORST ACCIDENTS KILLS SEVEN PEOPLE
07 March 2008
TAXI DRIVER ATTACKED IN HIS OWN CAR
06 March 2008
MAN THREATENED IN FRIGHTENING CITY CENTRE INCIDENT
04 March 2008
11.30am LATEST UPDATE - LORRY DRIVER CRITICALLY ILL AFTER THREE-VEHICLE PILE-UP ON M5
03 March 2008
RESIDENTS TO PAY 411 PER CENT MORE COUNCIL TAX
03 March 2008
BODY RECOVERED FROM RIVER AVON
26 February 2008
AUSSIE ACE HARRISON BECOMES BATH'S SECOND LOCK SIGNING IN 24 HOURS
FORMER Australia lock Justin Harrison (pictured) is joining Bath on a one-year contract. It is the second signing in the boilerhouse made by the club in 24 hours as the 33-year old veteran of 34 Tests for the Wallabies joins Stuart Hooper in making the move to the Recreation Ground next season.
26 February 2008
WOMEN SHOPPERS WARNED ABOUT BAG THEFTS IN BATH
26 February 2008
MAN ATTACKED TWICE WITHIN AN HOUR
26 February 2008
ARRESTS FOLLOW RAID ON GYPSY SITE
22 February 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - LAMB BACK AND AIMING FOR THE CENTURY
RYAN LAMB (pictured) and Alex Brown are the key names returning to Gloucesters starting line-up for Saturday's Kingsholm clash against Newcastle (3pm).
22 February 2008
OVER 100 FIREFIGHTERS TACKLE MASSIVE BLAZE ON TRADING ESTATE
17 February 2008
FIVE PEOPLE IN CUSTODY OVER SUSPICOUS FIRE
15 February 2008
PEOPLE FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES AFTER NEWSAGENTS GOES UP IN SMOKE
12 February 2008
MAN ARRESTED BY POLICE AFTER DEATH
12 February 2008
FIND MAN'S TWO ATTACKERS PLEA
11 February 2008
AVON AND SOMERSET CLOSE THEIR BOOKS ON RECRUITMENT
08 February 2008
CONCERNS RAISED ABOUT MISSING PENSIONER
08 February 2008
TEENAGER CHARGED AFTER WORRYING DRIVING OUTSIDE A SCHOOL
07 February 2008
£250K OF CANNABIS SEIZED BY POLICE
CANNABIS plants with an estimated street value of more than £250,000 have been seized by police from an address in Bristol.
05 February 2008
MAN IN HOSPITAL AFTER HE CHALLENGED PEOPLE TAMPERING WITH HIS CAR
03 February 2008
POLICE DISCOVER MISSING WOMAN'S CAR AND A BODY
31 January 2008
FIVE PEOPLE ARRESTED IN LATEST OPERATION UTAH CRACKDOWN
MORE than 100 vehicles were stopped and five people arrested as part of an operation involving three forces on Wednesday (January 30).
31 January 2008
POLICE HUNT COMPUTER THIEVES
28 January 2008
ARMED ROBBERS STRIKE OUTSIDE CITY CENTRE BUILDING SOCIETY
28 January 2008
CONFLICTING REPORTS FUEL FARES WAR BETWEEN PROTESTORS AND FIRST GREAT WESTERN
TRAIN fare protesters say they have had outstanding support from the public during their day of action on Monday (January 28) against 'cattle truck' conditions.
28 January 2008
BOUNTY HUNTING IS A SUCCESS FOR POLICE
25 January 2008
POLICE SEIZE £2M WORTH OF DRUGS
POLICE have released results from their ongoing drugs enforcement action campaign in Bristol to put drug dealers behind bars.
23 January 2008
TWO HELD AFTER DAWN RAIDS
TWO men have been arrested after dawn raids brought a haul of hard drugs, firearms and counterfeit money. Officers from Bristol were joined by the force helicopter, firearms officers and a drugs search dog to execute three warrants at addresses in Twinnell House, Rawnsley House and Robertson Road, Easton, and also Sussex Place in St Pauls.
23 January 2008
POLICE HUNT CAR WRECKERS
22 January 2008
WOMAN MOTORIST PUNCHED BY ANOTHER DRIVER
20 January 2008
POLICE HUNT STUDENT'S ATTACKER
18 January 2008
MAN SERIOUSLY HURT AFTER ACCIDENT WITH A BUS
17 January 2008
MAN ARRESTED AFTER SERIES OF DECEPTIONS
17 January 2008
FOURTH ACC JOINS AVON AND SOMERSET FORCE
16 January 2008
BOYCOTT OF CADBURY PRODUCTS CALL AS KEYNSHAM PLANT CLOSURE IS CONFIRMED
PEOPLE have been urged to stop buying Cadbury products around the West Country over the threat to jobs at the Keynsham plant.
16 January 2008
CAMPAIGN GROUP CALL FOR SECOND PASSENGER RAIL STRIKE
A SECOND passenger strike by frustrated train users across the West Country is planned for later in January.
15 January 2008
CON MAN BELIEVED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 20 DECEPTIONS
11 January 2008
'DESPICABLE' THIEVES ROBBED 84-YEAR-OLD PENSIONER IN HER OWN HOME
10 January 2008
MAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT
04 January 2008
POLICE CLOSE OFF ROADS IN BATH AFTER MAN IS KILLED
03 January 2008
SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD HIT BY A BUS
03 January 2008
FESTIVE DRINK-DRIVING FIGURES ENCOURAGING FOR OLDER MOTORISTS
MOST older drivers are finally getting the message, it seems, as the number of people caught for getting behind the wheel while over the legal alcohol limit has dropped sharply on previous years.
03 January 2008
TEXT MESSAGE SCAM CAUSES CHAOS AT SUPPORT GROUP
A TEXT message scam is causing chaos at a support group for the gay communities. Police in Gloucestershire are appealing for people not to respond to messages that ask them to ring a certain number.
03 January 2008
POLICE TRY AND TRACE FAMILY OF CRITICALLY INJURED SYRIAN MAN
02 January 2008
MAN CRITICALLY INJURED AFTER NEW YEAR'S DAY ATTACK
31 December 2007
APPEAL AFTER ATTEMPTED BURGLARY
28 December 2007
MAN GETS MASSIVE SIX-YEAR FOOTBALL BANNING ORDER
A 40-year-old Bristol City supporter has been banned from watching football live for six years, one of the longest ever imposed in the Avon and Somerset police force area.
24 December 2007
POLICE RECOVER MAN'S BODY FROM RIVER AVON
POLICE are appealing for information to help identify a man whose body was recovered from the River Avon in Bristol on Christmas Eve.
19 December 2007
SIX MEN CHARGED WITH GBH
18 December 2007
MAJOR OPERATION AT PORTBURY DOCKS REAPS REWARDS
FIVE people have been arrested, 85 commercial vehicles stopped and nine ships boarded as part of a huge three-day multi-agency operation at Avonmouth's Portbury Dock (pictured).
17 December 2007
ILLEGAL TAXIS FORCED OFF THE ROADS
17 December 2007
'SECURE YOUR MANOR' OVER CHRISTMAS
14 December 2007
POLICE SEIZE £250K OF DRUGS FROM CANNABIS FACTORY
POLICE have recovered a quarter of a million pounds worth of drugs following an intelligence-led operation in Nibley, Yate. At around 9am on Thursday (December 13), officers from the Chipping Sodbury Neighbourhood Policing Team executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act in a premise on the outskirts of the town.
11 December 2007
HINKLEY POINT B GETS ANOTHER FIVE YEARS OF LIFE
BRITISH Energy has announced that the lifetime of its Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in Somerset is to be extended by five years which will safeguard the future of nearly 700 full and contract staff.
11 December 2007
MOTORCYCLISTS KILLED IN SOMERSET CRASH
09 December 2007
CADBURY WORKERS MARCH THROUGH KEYNSHAM IN CLOSURE PROTEST
HUNDREDS of workers at the Cadbury factory in Keynsham marched through the town in Saturday in protest at the closure of their plant. The company plans to transfer a lot of work from Keynsham and the Bourville plant in Birmingham over to Poland.
07 December 2007
TWO DOZEN PEOPLE KICKED OUT OF THEIR AREAS FOR ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
07 December 2007
FIVE IN COURT AFTER HUGE CITY CENTRE FIGHT
06 December 2007
DRUGS RAID OPERATION 'ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN YEARS'
DRUGS worth hundreds of thousands of pounds have been seized by Avon and Somerset Police in Bristol on what they say is one of their most successful days of drugs enforcement action in recent years.
06 December 2007
POLICE WARN THEY WILL SEIZE UNINSURED CARS
05 December 2007
MAN CRITICAL AFTER STABBING INCIDENT
04 December 2007
THIEF STEALS CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
03 December 2007
CADBURY WORKERS TAKE TWO-PRONGED ACTION AGAINST CUTS
WORKERS at the Cadbury factory in Keynsham are looking to increase their protests against the closure of their factory and loss of jobs.
02 December 2007
BATH TO FEATURE IN NEW 'BONEKICKERS' DRAMA SERIES
BATH is going on screen in a new adverture-drama series that is being made for BBC One. Filming of the production, called 'Bonekickers', has already started around Bath city centre and follows on from the extremely successful period drama 'The Duchess' which captured venues throughout the region earlier this year.
(Pictured: The Assembly Rooms)
30 November 2007
'WE ARE WATCHING YOU' POLICE TELL CHRISTMAS DRINK DRIVERS
A night in a police cell, a criminal record, a 12 month minimum driving ban and 11 year wait for a clean licence will all be added to the Christmas gift list for any drivers unable to say no to a festive drink, police have warned.
30 November 2007
'WE ARE WATCHING YOU' POLICE WARN CHRISTMAS DRINK DRIVERS
29 November 2007
CLASSIC CAR STOLEN
28 November 2007
PARENTS TOLD TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON KIDS
27 November 2007
MP ACCUSES GOVERNMENT OF FAILING TO CONTROL BINGE DRINKING
BATH MP Don Foster has accused the Government of failing to address the country's binge drinking culture.
(Pictured: Bath's Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster)
27 November 2007
TWO FANS BANNED FROM WATCHING BRISTOL CITY
26 November 2007
COMPANY SUFFER £1M OF FIRE DAMAGE
23 November 2007
POLICE FEAR FOR TEENAGER'S SAFETY
TEENAGER DIES IN HORROR CAR CRASH
A TEENAGER died and a young boy was seriously injured after a crash in Long Ashton, Bristol, on Tuesday night (November 20).
06/11/2007
HELP NEEDED TO TRACE MISSING MAN
POLICE are trying to trace Neil Robert Thomas, from Bedminster, Bristol, who has gone missing since November 5.
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06/11/2007
POLICE HUNT WALLET SNATCHER
POLICE are hunting a thief who snatched a wallet and ran through the middle of Weston-super-Mare town centre.
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05/11/2007
POLICE INVESTIGATE PUB FIRE
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a fire at the Ship and Castle pub in Ashton Vale Road, Bristol, at about 2am on Saturday (November 3).
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25/10/2007
BRISTOL CITY FANS GIVEN BANNING ORDERS
TWO Bristol City fans have been subjected to banning orders for three years. The orders were imposed at Bristol Magistrates Court on Friday (October 19).
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24/10/2007
MAN CONVICTED OF DEVELOPING AND SELLING PIRATE DVD GAMES
A BUSINESSMAN has became only the second person in the UK to be convicted for developing and selling the illegal technology that enables games console users to play pirate CDs and DVDs.
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23/10/2007
CRACKDOWN STARTS ON TRICK OR TREAT HOOLIGANS
AVON and Somerset Police have warned they will be out in force this Halloween to crack down onTrick or Treat troublemakers.
(Pictured: Good natured Trick or Treaters)
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23/10/2007
MAN ORDERED TO RE-PAY £51,000 OF HIS CRIMINAL PROCEEDS BACK
POLICE have warned that crime doesn't pay as a man, found guilty of theft, was ordered to pay over £51,000 of his proceeds back.
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15/10/2007
MAN LEFT UNCONSCIOUS AFTER ATTACK
POLICE are appealing for information after a man was left unconscious after being assaulted in Staple Hill.
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15/10/2007
POLICE APPEAL FOR ACCIDENT WITNESSES
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision in Bridgwater.
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11/10/2007
FOUR IN COURT ON THEFT CHARGES
FOUR men have been brought before the courts by detectives in Somerset East after being suspected of involvement in three separate false claims of vehicle theft.
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11/10/2007
POLICE HUNT KNOWLE MAN
POLICE want to speak to a man in connection with a number of crimes in the Bristol area. He is Sean Quinn, aged 29 who lives in the Knowle West area.
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10/10/2007
MAN ARRESTED AFTER DRAMATIC POLICE CHASE
A man was arrested after a dramatic police chase through the streets of Bristol during the early hours of Wednesday morning (Oct 10).
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10/10/2007
POLICE HUNT CRIMINAL DAMAGE MAN
POLICE have released images of a man they want to speak to in connection with a series of incidents of criminal damage in Taunton.
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09/10/2007
WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST JOB LOSSES
WORKERS at the threatened Cadbury factory in Keynsham are protesting against the loss of 500 jobs there.
(Pictured: The threatened Cadbury factory)
05/10/07
SEVERN BARRAGE 'NOT SUSTAINABLE'
THE SEVERN Barrage is 'not sustainable' and will cause 'real environmental' damage, believes the Bristol Port Company. (Pictured: The proposed Severn Barrage)
04/10/07
RAM RAIDERS STRIKE IN BATH
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a ram raid in the early hours of Thursday (October 4) in Rivers Street Place, Bath.
01/10/07
POLICE HUNT GANG OF ROBBERS
POLICE are appealing for information after a robbery in Royal Victoria Park, Bath, on Saturday (September 29).
01/10/2007
ANDY ROBINSON TAKES OVER AT EDINBURGH
FORMER Bath and England coach Andy Robinson (pictured) has been appointed as the new head coach of Edinburgh Rugby.
01/10/2007
AUSTRALIAN MAN DIES IN M5 CRASH
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a fatal RTC n which a 66-year-old Australian died.
01/10/2007
ARRESTS MADE AFTER FOOTBALL MATCH TROUBLE
POLICE have arrested three people following public disorder during the Bristol Rovers v Swindon Town match earlier this year.
28/09/2007
WOMAN ASSAULTED
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after an incident on Staplegrove Road, Taunton, in which a woman was assaulted.
28/09/2007
ALL THIS WEEKEND'S RUGBY TEAM NEWS AS IT IS ANNOUNCED
Friday all day! All the team news for this weekend's Guinness Premiership and Magners League matches as we get them. Wales and West News and Sport - Rugby news TODAY, not tomorrow
27/09/2007
PUBLIC CALLED TO GIVE VIEWS ON COUNCIL PLANNING SCHEME
The public are being invited to get involved in the preparation of a major new
planning framework for Bath and North East Somerset.
27/09/2007
MASSIVE
CAMPAIGN ON BURGLARY IS LAUNCHED
AVON and Somerset Police have today (Thursday,
September 27) launched a massive campaign to tackle the growing menace of distraction
burglary and the misery it causes to victims and their families.
27/09/2007
HAVE YOUR SAY AT NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH MEETING
PEOPLE living in Frampton Cotterell and Westerleigh are being invited to have their say on issues affecting their neighbourhoods in the first of the area's Safer Stronger Community Groups (SSCG).
27/09/2007
MOTORBIKE ACCIDENTS ON THE RISE
POLICE are urging
motorcyclists to take extra care on the region's roads following a sudden rise
in the number of serious and fatal collisions.
26/09/2007
MAN LEFT
FOR DEAD IN 'BRUTAL' ATTACK
TWELVE people have been arrested after a man was left for dead in Avonmouth.
22/09/2007
GRAFFITI MAN IS GIVEN SUSPENDED JAIL SENTENCE
BANKSY may have made
a mint out of it but continuous graffiti has landed a Bristol man with a criminal
record.
21/09/2007
COLD CASE TEAM CAPTURE 1980S ALLEGED RAPIST
A BRISTOL man has been charged with a series of rapes on women which happened between December 1980 and June 1981 and one charge of false imprisonment.
20/09/2007
POLICE APPEAL AFTER THREE-CAR PILE-UP
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a three-car crash in Bristol on Wednesday (Sept 19).
17/09/2007
BRISTOL MURDER VICTIM NAMED
POLICE have named the man who was murdered at the Criterion pub in St Paul's, Bristol, on Sunday (September 16).
16/09/2007
POLICE HUNT MAN'S MURDERER
POLICE have launched a murder investigation after a man was stabbed in Bristol on Sunday morning (September 16).
14/09/2007
POLICE SEIZE £6K OF DRUGS AFTER RAIDS
SUSPECTED cocaine with a street value of
around £6,000 has been seized by police in Yate on Friday (September 14).
12/09/2007
MOTORCYCLIST DIES IN CRASH
A motorcyclist has died following a collision on the A358 at Peasmarsh, near Chard in Somerset.
09/09/2007
MAN FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE AFTER STABBING
A MAN is fighting for his life in hospital after being stabbed on Sunday (Sept 9).
08/09/2007
DON'T BE TAKEN
IN BY SCAM
POLICE are warning residents not to part with their cash following reports of a letter scam.
08/09/2007
POLCE HUNT MAN'S ATTACKERS
POLICE are urgently appealing for witnesses after a serious assault that took place on Friday (Sept 7) in Bridgwater.
08/09/2007
MEN ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED
MURDER
TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an incident that took place in the early hours of this morning, which has resulted in a man being stabbed.
05/09/2007
PENSIONER DIES AFTER BUS FALL
POLICE in Weston are appealing for information and witnesses following an incident on a bus in the town which has resulted in the death of a 72-year-old man.
03/09/2007
POLICE HUNT MAN'S ATTACKER
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted in what police believe to be an unprovoked attack on Sunday (September 2) in Bath Road, Bristol.
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