A dog reported stolen in January has been returned to its thankful owner by police after being missing for nearly four weeks. Thieves broke down a large fence to take two male Shetland sheepdogs from a property in the Almondsbury area on Sunday 31st January 2021.
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A model gorilla created to celebrate Bristol Zoo’s 175th birthday has been stolen from Old Sodbury. ‘Godfrey’ is owned by Old Sodbury School and is part of Bristol Zoo’s Wow! Gorillas project. Several local businesses led by David Anthony of Cotswold Edge Farm helped to fund Godfrey on behalf of the school. “I am extremely upset that someone could even
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Police are warning motorists in South Gloucestershire to keep an eye on their car keys after recovering four stolen cars in an operation in Kingswood. Officers from the Priority Crime Team found the cars being stripped down when they searched a unit at the Douglas Road Industrial Estate on Wednesday 5th January 2011. The cars included a Vauxhall Corsa taken
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Two men have been charged after police searched a house in Kingswood on Tuesday September 28th 2010 and recovered a motorbike stolen in Longwell Green the day before. Officers from the Neighbourhood Team and the South Gloucestershire Priority Crime Team also recovered two bicycles stolen from Kingswood and Bridgeyate in the search. Six young men aged between 15 and 18
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South Gloucestershire police are warning moped riders to lock up following the arrest of three young men for moped theft. In the early hours of Wednesday 22nd September patrolling officers spotted a Piaggio NRG moped which had been stolen from Staple Hill. The bike was found abandoned near the cycle track at Mangotsfield and officers arrested three young men nearby.
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Police are warning trades people to be on the alert to thieves targeting vans in South Gloucestershire and Bristol and stealing either the vehicles or tools. Officers say the thieves, often themselves in a white Ford Transit van, are targeting vehicles at building sites or parked at builders’ merchants and large hardware stores. The thieves have been described as white
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Filton police, the RSPCA and South Gloucestershire Council’s dog warden recovered eight dogs suspected of being stolen or neglected in an operation at a travellers’ site in Winterbourne on Tuesday 3rd August 2010. Five dogs – a lone week-old puppy of unidentified breed, a German Shepherd bitch and her puppy and two Jack Russells – were seized by the RSPCA,
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Thornbury police have recovered two stolen vans after a farmer found them hidden in a field. Neighbourhood PC Roger Hopes was contacted by the farmer on Thursday 5th August. The white Ford Transit vans were well hidden in undergrowth in the field and one of them was on false plates. Officers have traced the owners and the vehicles have been
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Police are warning people to be on their guard against a scam happening in supermarket car parks. A man is approaching people as they sit in their cars and asking for directions. While they are distracted looking at his map, cash and bank cards are stolen from bags left in the car. There were two incidents on Tuesday June 15
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South Gloucestershire police arrested four young men in the early hours of Tuesday April 20 2010 after a reported theft from a van in Warmley. Police were called just before 3am to Montrose Avenue, where youths had been disturbed in a garden. As officers searched the surrounding area, they found one man who had had a hammer drill stolen from
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