Detectives investigating the death of Barry Rubery are appealing for information on what would have been his 69th birthday (16th August). On the evening of Wednesday 28th April, Barry George Rubery returned to his home (Crossing Cottage) on the Latteridge Road, Iron Acton following a dinner with friends. He returned to the property at around 10:45pm and was found the
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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 appealing for witnesses and information following an assault in Kingswood on Saturday 25th July. At around 3am a 27-year-old man was about to enter a fast food outlet on Regent Street when he was approached by an unknown man who assaulted him and dragged him down London street. The assault stopped when a member of the public intervened.
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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 have renewed their appeal for information following the murder of Barry Rubery in Iron Acton on Wednesday 28th April. Mr Rubery was brutally killed at his Crossing Cottage home on the Latteridge Road in Iron Acton following a night out with friends. Today (Friday 23rd July) his family are holding his funeral at Westerleigh Crematorium near Yate. Philip and
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Police are appealing for information to try to find whoever has daubed racist graffiti on property in the Patchway area of Bristol. Two shops in Rodway Road and a garage door nearby have been damaged. PC Carie Munden of Staple Hill police, investigating the offences, said: “I would like to hear any information, however small, in regard to the identity
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Police are appealing for information and witnesses following an assault in Filton Avenue, Filton, Bristol. At around 7pm on Friday July 9 a van driver pulled his vehicle over to speak to a cyclist. The cyclist then became verbally aggressive and caused damaged to the driver’s van. The victim again tried to approach the cyclist (pictured) for his details and
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Police are appealing for information and witnesses following a racially aggravated incident in the Patchway area. On two separate occasions, one on Thursday July 8 and another on Monday July 12, graffiti of a racist nature was sprayed onto a garage door in Cavendish Road. Police are treating this as racially aggravated criminal damage Detective Sergeant Mark Goss from Staple
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