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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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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Thornbury police arrested a man in the early hours of Sunday 25th July 2010 after finding a quantity of suspected drugs in his car. As part of ‘Operation Relentless: keeping you safe this summer’, patrolling officers stopped and checked the car in Gillingstool just after midnight and found a quantity of white powder. A 35-year-old man from Gloucester arrested on
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Police are appealing for information after reports of a man exposing himself in Alveston and Thornbury. The man was seen jogging near Down Road Park at about 5.15pm on Monday July 05 2010. He asked two girls aged 12 and 13 if they would help him find something he had lost in the bushes. The girls moved away, but the
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Police in Thornbury have arrested a number of youths after a garage was broken into and a car stolen. Officers were called to Hamble Close at about 3am on Tuesday June 29 2010 by a member of the public reporting four people acting suspiciously near a garage. A garage had been broken into and a blue Fiat Cinquecento stolen. Police
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Police investigating the disappearance and murder of Bath woman Melanie Hall, whose remains were found in undergrowth beside the M5 near Thornbury in October 2009, have arrested a 38-year-old man. He is being held at a police station in the Avon and Somerset force area and will be interviewed in connection with her murder and the disposal of her body.
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South Gloucestershire Council has completed a footpath which links Tytherington to Thornbury, thanks to a grant from Natural England. The footpath, which has been well received locally, runs from Tytherington village to Thornbury town centre and provides residents with a safer pedestrian route to their local town. The new 300-metre section of path runs along Tytherington Road next to the
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Police are appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision in Milbury Heath (near Thornbury) in the early hours of Friday morning. Shortly before 1.30am on Friday 19th March, a Peugeot 206 was travelling towards the A38 in Milbury Heath, when it’s believed to have come into collision with a wall. The female driver of the Peugeot was taken to
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Thornbury-based police worked with volunteers from Avon & Somerset Search and Rescue during the recent wintry weather to make sure people were safe. Volunteer Alan George based himself and the charity’s four-wheel drive ambulance at Thornbury Police Station on Wednesday January 08 and Thursday January 09 2010. He said: “The officers and staff made me very welcome and I was
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a premises was damaged in Thornbury. The incident occurred on Friday 4th December 2009 between 7.15 and 7.30pm at the Hingtai Takeaway, Pullins Green, Thornbury. A man entered the premises and verbally abused staff before smashing a window at the location and running away. The offender is described as a white man,
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