Police were called to Filton College at around 3pm on Tuesday December 08 2009 after reports of a group of about 10 teenage girls involved in a fight. Officers found that at least one young woman had been assaulted and she was treated by ambulance for a cut to her head. A young woman aged 17 from Southville was arrested
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Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision in Charfield, South Gloucestershire involving two lorries in which one of the drivers died. It happened at around 2.30pm on Tuesday, December 8 on the B4058 Wootton Road. For some reason one of the lorries, a Scania, drifted into the path of another lorry coming the other way and collided
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Investigations are underway after a 65 year old man was found dead in his home in Prestbury, Yate. At 2.40pm on Thursday December 3, police were called to an address where the man was found deceased. A 33 year old man was arrested at the scene and currently remains in police custody. Police are not looking for anyone else in
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Police are appealing for information after a man was assaulted at Tesco’s in Kingswood. At around 8pm on Thursday November 19 a security guard at the petrol station was assaulted by a man. Two other men helped the offender and he ran off. Police are now appealing for driver and passenger in a red car to come forward as they
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A former police officer has been given a suspended jail sentence after being convicted on shoplifting while on duty in uniform. Peter Cokell, aged 34, received a 12 week jail term, suspended for 12 months, this week. He was also ordered to do 70 hours unpaid work in the community, contribute £400 towards the costs of the case, and pay
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a man was assaulted in Kingswood. The incident occurred on Sunday 15th November 2009 at around 12.45am when the male victim, aged 22, was in Barcelona Bar, Kingswood. He was involved in an altercation with another man who hit him in the face with a glass. The offender is described as a
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Two Patchway Neighbourhood Police Community Support Officers found a cannabis factory after responding to anonymous information. Pat Gardener and Rob Hendra went to Rodway Road on Wednesday November 25 2009 after reports that of suspicious behaviour at a house. They found a house which had been left insecure and went in to check the property. Inside, they found 50 cannabis
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Police are appealing for information after a disabled woman was subject to abuse in Thornbury on Saturday, October 31. At around 1:30pm to 2pm the victim, a 35-year-old disabled woman, was sitting on a bench on High Street, Thornbury when a coach stopped nearby. It’s alleged that three male passengers from the coach approached the victim, touched her and sang
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Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault of a pizza delivery man in the Mangotsfield area. At around 9pm on Monday, October 26 the victim was delivering pizza to an address in Berkeley Close, Mangotsfield when three unknown men approached and asked for the pizza. When he did not give them it, one of the offenders kneed the victim
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Police are appealing for information about an arson attack on a barn near Chipping Sodbury that killed 50 rare breed chickens. The corrugated iron and timber building was set alight at around 8pm on Monday, November 9. Bales of hay and a number of lawn mowers and other gardening equipment were also destroyed. The smallholding is on Chipping Sodbury Common,
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