Police in South Gloucestershire are appealing for witnesses following an armed robbery at a betting shop in Filton. At around 6.30pm on Tuesday, April 20 an unknown offender has entered a betting shop on Filton Avenue and threatened a staff member, with what was believed to be a knife, and ordered him to hand over cash. It’s believed the offender
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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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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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Residents are invited to have their say on proposals for improvements to cycling facilities in South Gloucestershire as part of the Cycling City project. A proposed new route will provide a link from the University of the West of England (UWE) south to Broomhill and then onto cycle routes into Bristol. The new route will provide a choice of off-road
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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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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 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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