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December 1, 2015, 4:34 am

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Police in Bath want to speak to a suspect in two separate shoplifting incidents at a glassware shop. Officers are asking for help to identify a woman in connection with the crimes at the Bath Aqua Glass shop in Abbey Churchyard. They happened on Saturday and Sunday, November 14 and 15. Two items of glass jewellery were taken. The woman pictured on CCTV is carrying a distinctive black and white handbag with a zigzag pattern that may help to identify her. Avon and Somerset Police would...

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December 1, 2015, 5:56 am

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Former University of Bath student DJ Neil Fox performed a sex act on a 15-year-old girl during a tour of the Capital Radio record library, a court heard today. The self-confessed fan claims the DJ first "snogged" her when she was 14 and invited her to his flat when she was older. The DJ and former Pop Idol judge also wrote 'Nice bum' on the back pocket of the girl's jeans when she asked for his autograph, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard. In her police interview which was...

Chippenham woman sentenced to prison for benefit fraud

December 1, 2015, 7:51 am

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A Chippenham woman has been handed a suspended prison sentence for committing benefit fraud.Elaine Ivory, 44, of Hill Corner Road, Chippenham, was sentenced to 28 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, after pleading guilty to two charges under the Social Security Administration Act 1992. She had dishonestly failed to let Wiltshire Council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) know that her husband, who was working, was living with her when she claimed Income Support, Housing Benefit...

Second transgender woman found dead in male prison in two weeks

December 1, 2015, 7:59 am

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A transgender woman has been found dead in the all-male prison where she had been serving a sentence for attempted murder. Joanne Latham, 38, was discovered hanged in her cell on Friday by a prison officer at the Category A Milton Keynes prison Woodhill. The news comes two weeks after 21-year-old transgender woman Vicky Thompson was found dead in HMP Leeds. It is likely to raise more questions about whether transgender women should ever be made to service custodial sentences in male...

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December 2, 2015, 2:55 am

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A woman who stole nearly £100,000 from her dad's company and then told him "it's not that much" has avoided jail after he refused to give evidence against her. Imogen Morgan, 24, siphoned £94,000 into her own bank account in just 12 months as a secretary at her family's scaffolding firm - including £40,000 in the six weeks before being caught. It was only when her dad Arron checked the paperwork that he noticed payments to a regular client were going into two...

Cars parked in Bath targeted by thieves

December 2, 2015, 7:09 am

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Car owners are being advised to remove valuables from their vehicles following a series of thefts. According to Bath Police 11 vehicles have been targeted and cash stolen.A spokesman said: "We're advising people always to lock their car, even if they've removed anything of significant value, following a number of thefts from vehicles in the Batheaston area of Bath and in the north of the city."In Batheaston on Sunday morning, November 29, we found that 11 vehicles had been entered and...

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December 2, 2015, 10:44 am

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A former Bath DJ has accused one of his alleged victims of being a "fanatical fan". Radio DJ Neil Fox, who was once a student at the University of Bath, has told a jury at Westminster Magistrates Court that the woman, who was 15 when she claims the star assaulted her, "fantasised" they had a relationship. He also insisted he was not "having a thing with" her. The woman claims Fox molested her in the record library at Capital Radio in 1988 and once she had...

DJ Neil Fox trial: Star claims simulating sex 'acceptable'

December 2, 2015, 10:53 am

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Radio and television star DJ Neil Fox has told a jury that simulating sex with a close colleague may be acceptable. The former Bath DJ is facing eight counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, which include four indecent assaults relating to girls under 16. A former Capital Radio colleague claims that Fox came up behind her and squeezed her boobs, bent her over a desk and simulated sex, and once cupped her groin. But the radio DJ said that if taken out of context...

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Woman grabbed by face in jewellery robbery

December 2, 2015, 11:19 am

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Police are appealing for information after a woman was grabbed by the face and robbed of jewellery in her own home. The 65-year-old woman had just returned home when a man knocked on her door asking for help. According to police the man claimed his car was overheating and asked whether he could have some water. The victim subsequently gave him a watering can. When the man returned, he grabbed the woman by the face and pushed her against a wall before demanding her jewellery. After...

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December 3, 2015, 1:44 am

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Bath police are trying to track down a man and woman after an elderly woman's bank card was stolen and £300 was taken from her account.The victim was using the Barclays Bank ATM machine on Southgate Street in Bath when the theft took place.Her bank card was stolen while she was distracted, at around 1pm on Thursday, November 12.The victim's bank card was then used to take £300 from her account.Police have released CCTV images showing a man and woman who they believe might have some...

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December 3, 2015, 5:23 am

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Police are asking for the public's help to identify a man they would like to speak to in connection with the robbery of a 92-year-old woman. The woman had her handbag snatched in broad daylight in Bristol. Police believe the elderly lady was followed from the Co-op on Straits Parade in Fishponds, where she had collected her pension at around 2.30pm on Tuesday, November 24. She walked down towards KFC, then back up and across Fishponds Road to a small lane opposite, called Chasefield...

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December 3, 2015, 8:39 am

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Carla Louise Bayliss, 31, Landseer Road, Bath, was sentenced to 52 weeks in prison for breaching the terms of a restraining order. She was also ordered to pay £260. Steven William David King, 31, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, was given a ten-week curfew between the hours of 7pm and 7am, was told he would be electronically monitored and was ordered to pay £226.50 for stealing alcohol worth £16.50 from Morrisons, breaching the conditions of a conditional discharge, stealing cider...

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December 3, 2015, 8:42 am

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A thief has been sent to prison for 20 weeks following a two-month crime spree. Samuel Thomas Kiely, 23, of no fixed address, was given the prison sentence by Bath Magistrates' Court when he appeared before judges this week. Kiely was also disqualified from driving for 18 months, and ordered to pay a £80 victim surcharge and £180 court costs. He pleaded guilty to driving a Citroen Picasso while disqualified on Bath Old Road and driving without insurance on November 25. His...

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December 4, 2015, 4:27 am

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Police have been accused of having a fixation with allegations of sexual abuse committed by celebrities and politicians. The accusation was made during the final day of DJ Neil Fox's trial. The former Pop Idol judge has been charged with eight counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, which include four indecent assaults relating to girls under 16. Four of the offences are alleged to have been committed before 1996 but the rest were committed after 2003 with some as...

Police in 24-hour stand-off with man

December 4, 2015, 5:17 am

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Police remain in a stand-off with a man. Armed officers have been seen at the scene on Park Road, in Stapleton, Bristol. Emergency services were called to the area at 5pm on Thursday night. The block of flats was evacuated over night and the road remains closed. Avon and Somerset Police are advising people to stay away from the area. Ambulance crews, plain clothed officers and dogs remain at the scene on Friday evening. Supt Will White said: "This is an isolated incident and we're...

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December 4, 2015, 5:39 am

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A criminal was wearing a blonde wig when he took police on a dangerous high-speed car chase. Darren Grey narrowly missed a pedestrian, jumped red lights and travelled at double the speed limit in residential areas during the pursuit. Bristol Crown Court heard the 41-year-old "risked robbing people of their lives" during the chase in November, which ended when the car ran out of fuel. Prosecutor Susan Cavender told the court an officer in a following police car said: "I have...

Farmers warned about new scam

December 4, 2015, 5:52 am

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Farmers are being warned to look out for suspicious calls, texts or emails. Bath and North East Somerset Council's Trading Standards department says fraudsters are targeting the agricultural sector as EU grant payments begin to arrive in bank accounts this month. From December, farmers start to receive funds through the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), the European Union's main rural payments scheme. Information about the payments, including the recipients' names and the amount paid, is...

Missing: Teddy bear mascot for Sirona care & health

December 4, 2015, 7:47 am

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The hunt is on to find a missing teddy bear in Bath. Sirona Ted - the teddy bear is the mascot for Sirona care & health's state-of-the-art Children's Audiology Clinic but he has disappeared from his case which has pride of place in the clinic's waiting room at the Clara Cross Centre at St Martin's Hospital, Bath Claire Ball, Sirona's audiology services co-ordinator, said: "We don't know whether he's gone to the Christmas Market in the city centre to get a new outfit or a festive top...

ISIS error message worries students

December 4, 2015, 8:59 am

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Students were left worried after a computer error message suggested they had been hacked by ISIS. A student at the University of West England quickly grabbed a screen shot of the notice. The full error message on my UWE said: "Service unavailable. The Student Record System (ISIS) is temporarily unable to provide this service. Please try again later." The message appeared on the same day that students were expected to hand in their work online. Speaking to student...

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December 4, 2015, 9:23 am

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The defence lawyer for DJ Neil Fox has argued the actions the star is accused of are not against the law. Jonathan Caplan QC likened the allegations, if proven, to what goes on at Christmas parties. On the final day of the trial, he said: "Magistrates courts would be very busy just before Christmas after lots of Christmas parties. "The questions is whether it is criminal. "I am not saying that the prosecution does have to prove that the allegations do come within...