Police in South Gloucestershire are appealing for witnesses after a woman was sexually assaulted in Filton in the early hours of Sunday, February 14. At around 2am the victim was getting out of a taxi on Kenmore Crescent when she was approached by an unknown man, asking for directions. When the victim – a 23-year-old woman – started to give
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South Gloucestershire police have recovered two quad bikes and a go-kart stolen from an outdoor activity centre in Winterbourne. The theft happened overnight Monday January 18 to Tuesday January 19 2010. Thieves are believed to have broken into a metal shipping container used for storage to get an angle grinder which they then used to break into the container used
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South Gloucestershire police are appealing for people living in Downend to check their property after five burglaries in the area on Friday February 19 2010. The break-ins all happened between 7.30 and 9.30pm within half a mile of Badminton Road, Downend. DC Jason Hulbert said: “The thieves were simply letting themselves in through unlocked front doors even though the householders
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Police are appealing for people who may have seen a handbag snatch in the car park of a supermarket in the Kingswood area. The incident happened in the Somerfield car park in Halls Road between 2-2.15pm on Wednesday (February 10). The victim, aged 70, was sat in her car – a blue Volkswagen Polo – when a man male ran
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Police patrolling Warmley in response to recent burglaries of sheds, garages and homes arrested a man and a woman for going equipped to steal. The arrest happened at about 4.30am on Friday February 12 2010 after South Gloucestershire officers spotted a man and a woman carrying a bag of tools, wire, gloves and Stanley knives. A 17-year-old man from Kingswood
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Police in South Gloucestershire are appealing for information after a man was assaulted in Patchway on Saturday, February 6. The victim, a man in his 30s, was walking home through Norman Scott Playing Fields at around 1am with his partner, when it’s alleged that a group of men came from the direction of Windermere Road and assaulted him. It’s believed
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was robbed in Somerfield Car Park, Halls Road, Kingswood. The incident occurred on Wednesday 10th February 2010 between 2 and 2.15pm. The victim was sat in her car (a blue Volkswagen Polo) when a man ran up, opened the passenger door and grabbed her handbag. The victim grappled with him, the straps
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Assets worth almost £35,000 are to be seized from a Stoke Gifford man convicted of drug dealing. In August 2009 the man admitted supplying cocaine and cannabis and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. On Friday February 05 2010 Bristol Crown Court ordered the confiscation of his realisable assets – £15,758 in cash seized from his home and two
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenager was assaulted in Tower Road South, Staple Hill, Bristol. The incident occurred on Saturday 5th February 2010 at around 9.25pm. A 14-year-old white make was approached by a group of around six other teenagers. They kicked the victim and punched him to the floor. The main offender is described as 16-17 years
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Police in South Gloucestershire are appealing for help tracing two men who threatened a cyclist with a knife and stole his bike. It happened as he was riding along an underpass by Kwik Fit on Gloucester Road, Patchway at around 1pm on Thursday, February 4. The offenders are both white. One was around 5ft 8ins tall, in his early 20s,
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