Tributes have been paid to 17-year-old Christopher Waldron, from Almondsbury, who died under tragic circumstances last night (Thursday, October 1). Police say his death is not believed to be suspicious. However, in all cases of child deaths, police investigate the circumstances, and are working with their partners and the coroner to establish how he died. Christopher’s mother Karen said in
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Police are appealing for information following a serious assault in Yate, during the early hours of Saturday 26th September 2009. The incident occurred at approximately 2.50am when a 21 year old man was found unconscious lying on the ground in Sundridge Park. He had a serious head injury and we believe he was assaulted. Just prior to the incident he
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Filton police arrested a man within minutes of a robbery in Church View, Filton, on Monday September 28 2009. It happened at around midday, when a shopkeeper was on his way to bank his takings. The victim was grabbed and pushed to the floor in the attack. Local people came forward to give officers information at the scene. Police searched
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a man indecently exposed himself to two 12-year-old girls. The incident occurred on Saturday 12th September 2009 at around 4.40pm in Littledean, Yate, Bristol. The man is described as white, aged about 60 years and 5ft 5ins tall. He had a round face with big cheeks. He was wearing small rectangle glasses
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Police are appealing for information after thieves broke into a storage unit at an infants’ school in Yate, stole a scooter and scrawled offensive graffiti on a play house. It happened at Broadway County Infants School over the weekend of September 19-20 2009. The burglary caused about £150 of damage to the storage unit to steal the red push-along scooter
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The Chipping Sodbury Neighbourhood Team is saying ‘on your bike’ to car thieves. Neigbourhood PCs and Police Community Support Officers will be patrolling Chipping Sodbury, Yate and villages in the surrounding area on bicycles for two weeks. Neighbourhood Sergeant Adrian Fallows said: “The team will be out on high-visibility cycle patrols as part of our campaign to prevent a seasonal
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Police are appealing for witnesses to a man acting indecently in public in Yate. They want to talk to anyone who may have seen a man in a white van parked near the Tesco Express in Station Road. Although a 42 year old man has been arrested and charged with two counts of indecency, police still want to talk to
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South Gloucestershire police have arrested three people for burglary acting on information from the public. On the afternoon of Sunday September 13, 2009, two 15-year-old boys were arrested in Stoke Gifford by police who responded to a call about youths congregating in a lane. Officers arrived to find someone had got into a house using a ladder from the garden
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Neighbourhood Police and Trading Standards officers carrying out checks on underage alcohol sales in the Chipping Sodbury, Frampton Cotterell and Yate areas were disappointed that five out of seven off-licences sold alcohol to under-18s. On Friday September 04 2009 police teamed up with South Gloucestershire Trading Standards officers for the operation, aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour and alcohol-related offences. With
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South Gloucestershire police have seized suspected cannabis with an estimated street value of more than £300,000 in an operation in Wick. Officers from the district’s Proactive Team acted on information from the community to plan the operation under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Police and Crime Scene Investigation officers went to a rented house in an isolated area on Tuesday
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