Police have arrested four young men in connection with criminal damage in Yate. Overnight Friday April 9 to Saturday April 10 2010 garden eight walls and two fences were knocked down and a car window smashed. The incidents happened in Highworth Crescent, Quedgeley, Sandhurst, St Briavels Drive and Toddington Close. The young men, two aged 14 and two 15 and
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a sexual assault in Meadow Mead, Brimsham near Yate. The incident occurred on Sunday 18th April 2010 at around 12am. An unknown offender followed the victim as she entered Meadow Mead via the cut-through from Spar Pools Lake. He took hold of her shoulders from behind before sexually assaulting her. The offender
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Police have arrested two men after hundreds of Virgin Media set-top boxes, smartcards and cloned cable modems were seized during a raid. Officers worked with Virgin Media on the operation to stop the illegal modification of digital TV set-top boxes and cable modems, used for accessing broadband internet services. Four addresses in Downend Road, Trinity Court, Dursley Road and Cross
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Police are seeking the public’s help to recover two stolen bikes – one of which belongs to a 10-year-old cystic fibrosis sufferer. They were taken overnight between 5pm on Sunday April 11 and 11am on Monday April 12 form a property in Edgeworth, Yate. Both bikes were Apollo mountain bikes – one with 26ins wheels and the other with 20ins
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a verbal altercation between two motorists in Hanham. The incident occurred on Sunday 4th April 2010 at around 6.30pm outside Beacon Rise Primary School. The driver of the number 6 First bus service was involved in a verbal altercation with a motorist in a Honda car and the road was blocked by
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Police are appealing for witnesses after some friends were assaulted on a playing field. The incident happened at around 8.20pm on Friday 9 April, 2010. Eight friends in their late teens and early twenties were at Redfield Edge Playing Fields in Oldland Common when they were approached by a group of up to 15 men who were aged 15 or
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Police in South Gloucestershire are appealing for information following a driving incident at the M4, M5 interchange on Sunday, March 21. At around 11.50am a grey Citroen Picasso was travelling along the M5 just passed the junction with the M4, when it’s alleged that another vehicle – a silver Honda Accord – cut into its path. The altercation between the
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South Gloucestershire police have helped to fund a free football skills session for young people in Kingswood. The two-hour session for up to 50 youngsters has been organised by the Kings Meadow Community Flats committee. Committee member Chris Ray said: “Without the funding from the police and the free use of Kingswood Leisure Centre thanks to South Gloucestershire Leisure this
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Police in South Gloucestershire are appealing for information following a robbery in Kingswood on Sunday, April 4. At around 11:15pm the victim was cycling home along Soundwell Road, Kingswood when he was approached by a group of men, commenting on his mountain bike. Its then alleged that one of the group threatened the victim to hand over his bike. The
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Police are appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision on the A4174 near Keynsham. At around 5.20pm this evening (April 4) police were called to a single vehicle collision involving a motorcycle, close to the Hicks Gate Roundabout. The motorcycle – a green Kawasaki – had just travelled onto the A4174 Avon Ring Road, from the Hicks Gate
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