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A court has heard how former Bath Rugby star Simon Danielli allegedly assaulted his estranged wife and her friend who he suspected she was having an affair with, the Daily Mail reports.The 37-year-old appeared before magistrates who heard from prosecutors that the retired athlete bugged his wife's home and beat a man before pushing his wife to the ground and smashing her iPhone.The alleged attacks on Olivia Danielli and Michael Browne took place on March 11 2015.Danielli has admitted common...

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Bath teenager appears in court accused of raping underage girl

March 22, 2017, 5:26 am

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A teenager from Bath has appeared in court charged with raping an underage girl. Toby Symonds, aged 19, has been charged with two counts of rape and two counts of engaging in sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16. The defendant, from Corston View in Bath, appeared before Bath Magistrates' Court today (March 22).He made no indication of plea to the four charges. Read next: Former Bath cop convicted of bizarre fraud slammed by judge for wasting court timeIt is alleged that between July...

Westminster attack: Bath student Nicky Stubbs on 'surreal...

March 22, 2017, 11:15 am

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A Bath student walked along Westminster Bridge just 20 minutes before a "terror" attack was carried out. Nicky Stubbs had been opposite the spot where a car was driven into a crowd of pedestrians in today's incident in London in which four people died. Mr Stubbs, who was working for a Labour MP at the time, had to remain inside a building in Westminster for safety reasons."Parliament is in lockdown," he said from inside Portcullis House."Security is coming in and...

​Teen charged with Jordan Taylor murder is held in custody after...

March 23, 2017, 3:15 am

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An 18-year-old charged with the murder of Jordan Taylor is being held in prison until his plea date in April. Hayden Maslen's case came before Bristol Crown Court on Wednesday (March 22) for a routine application hearing. The Trowbridge teenager was not present in court and no application for bail was made.BATH LIVE: Train disruption, rush hour traffic, plus more news, crime and sport on Thursday March 23He has been remanded in custody until his next court appearance. Maslen has been charged...

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March 23, 2017, 6:02 am

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A man has been fined almost £500 for an offensive slur at a central Bath pub. Johnathon Hastings-Dasent, aged 55, appeared in Bath Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, March 22, where he pleaded guilty to one charge.The court has listed the offence as one of racially or religiously aggravated harassment causing alarm or distress. BATH LIVE: Train disruption, rush hour traffic, plus more news, crime and sport on Thursday March 23The incident happened on Monday, February 20, at The Grapes pub on...

Somerset woman ordered to rebuild demolished wall of William...

March 23, 2017, 9:57 am

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A woman who demolished a gateway and part of a wall in the midst of the Bath conservation area has been ordered to put it all back again.The wall formed the southern boundary of a private garden off Upper Landsdown Mews, landscaped by William Beckford in the 1820s.And the gateway through it provided the only pedestrian access to a plot of land on which Karen Barton wanted to build a new house.Read more: Bath MP warns residents to be vigilant in wake of London terror attackShe had sought planning...

'There can never be any excuse for hate crime' in Bath - Avon and...

March 24, 2017, 12:39 am

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"There can never be any excuse for hate crime."That is the message sent by Avon and Somerset Constabulary Chief Constable Andy Marsh and Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens following the tragic events in Westminster on Wednesday (March 22).Together they penned an open letter to the people of Avon and Somerset to encourage unity and strength in our communities. BATH LIVE: Red Nose Day, Min bid, news, sport and more from the city on Friday, March 24Here is the letter in...

Bath paedophile teacher Timothy Snowdon convicted of more...

March 24, 2017, 8:43 am

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A former Bath teacher who was jailed for historical sex offences against a pupil has been handed two more years behind bars. Timothy Snowdon, of Trowbridge Road in Bradford on Avon, is currently serving a four-year prison term for a number of indecent assaults against a pupil at King Edward's School in the 1990s.The 61-year-old was called back before Bristol Crown Court on this week to answer two further charges of indecent assault against a boy.He admitted carrying out at least 70 indecent...

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March 24, 2017, 9:12 am

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A British actor whose baby died at a Bath hospital says he is "shocked, hurt and disappointed" that the hospital trust failed to tell him police had dropped an investigation into the death. Mad Men and Tudors star Jamie King and his actress wife Tamara Podemski, aged 38, lost their child Benjamin after a caesarian section was wrongly delayed by a day. An initial inquest in November was halted after a coroner was told that lawyers for the NHS trust had allegedly removed crucial evidence...

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March 26, 2017, 1:11 am

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A former Trowbridge school teacher has been banned from ever teaching again after sexually assaulting a pupil.Nicholas Bartlett, 28, became attached to a female pupil and admitted to squeezing her bottom and hugging her. Bartlett was also accused of discreetly sexually touching the girl while in front of other pupils, but he denied this.Bartlett admitted sending the girl a Facebook request, to which he apologised for doing, and also sent her messages. He also admitted to drinking alcohol with...

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March 26, 2017, 10:41 am

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Avon and Somerset police will be monitoring drivers' speeds at the following locations across Bath and North East Somerset this week. The force's Speed Enforcement Unit mobile speed cameras will be set up to clock how fast people are driving. Read next: Could these new powers put an end of pavement parking? Driving faster than the specified road limit could lean to a fine or worse. The following locations have been provided by the police, but is not a comprehensive list, neither does it...

Pensioner's 'desperate' plea to be reunited with dad's war medals...

March 27, 2017, 5:22 am

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A Bath pensioner is "desperate" to be reunited with a collection of war medals that were stolen from his house. Leslie Walrdron's city centre home was raided by thieves who stole a large quantity of jewellery and a number of war medals, in November 2015. Investigation into the incident has come up short, so the 79-year-old is making one final plea for information. Bath LIVE: Poverty stats latest, Monday morning travel, Bath Rugby reaction and more Between November 1 and 30, 2015,...

Bath homeless woman jailed after homophobic abuse towards pub...

March 27, 2017, 10:21 am

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A Bath homeless woman has been jailed after committing homophobic abuse towards a pub landlord. Jennifer Louise Weeks, of no fixed address, called Luke Murphy of the Ship Inn in Keynsham "a fat gay c***" and spat on him. The 23-year-old had admitted assault and aggravated harrassment at Bath Magistrates' Court in a previous hearing. The court heard on March 1 that Weeks had been drinking in the Temple Street pub from 6.30pm on January 30 with a male friend. But they became...

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March 27, 2017, 10:39 am

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A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man charged with stealing £3,500 from a central Bath newsagent.Kirren Mayo, aged 24, failed to appear at his Bath Magistrates' Court hearing this morning (Monday, March 27). The Wellsway resident is charged with stealing £3,500 from McColls in Argyle Street/ Grove Street last November.Magistrates issued a warrant without bail after his no-show. More crime: Bath homeless woman jailed after homophobic abuse towards pub landlord and spitting...

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March 27, 2017, 12:57 pm

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A Bath man will be put on the sex offenders' register after he was convicted of making 149 indecent images of children. Wayne McEwan, aged 43, was found guilty in a six-hour trial at Bath Magistrates' Court this morning (Monday, March 27). It heard his house in Glebe Road was raided by police executing a warrant under the Child Protection Act on October 10. The night previously he was alleged to have moved the Category C images onto a phone app called Photo Locker. The images of...

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March 28, 2017, 4:05 am

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Police in Bath made five arrests and seized Class A drugs after officers stopped a man in London Road and found he was in possession of cannabis.After stopping the man they went to an address in the Kingsmead area of the city. There they seizure of suspected class A drugs and a large amount of cash and made four more arrests.In all two men and three women aged between 21 and 49 were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs. Two women and a man were from Bath, one...

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March 28, 2017, 4:30 am

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A 74-year-old Bath shop owner has avoided jail after breaching a sexual harm prevention order.David Ewins of Ace Optics camera shop in Green Street was given the order after he accessed 842 indecent images of children.He admitted breaching the order and three other offences in a previous hearing and when it resumed today, Bristol Crown Court heard that police visited his home in Keynsham in August 2015.Prosecutor Richard Posner said: "The circumstances of that offending behaviour, when the...

Twerton man jailed for harassing woman, obstructing policeman and...

March 28, 2017, 8:11 am

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A Twerton man has been jailed for almost half a year after committing three offences, including a public order offence directed at a woman in public. For the offences Daniel Peter Dixon, aged 25, was handed a 16-week and two four-week jail terms - all to run consecutively.He was given 16 weeks in prison for using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or harassment towards the woman in Monmouth Street last May. It was deemed to cross the custody threshold by Bath magistrates...

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March 28, 2017, 9:58 pm

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Steve Anthony Dix, aged 48, of Kelston View in Bath, was committed to prison for four weeks suspended for 12 months after he admitted harassing a Bath woman in February. Dix admitted repeatedly phoning his victim and sending abusive and threatening messages directed at her new partner. He also sent her a picture of a large knife and the injuries he had inflicted upon himself with the knife. Dix was handed a restraining order preventing him from contacting his victim. He was also ordered to pay...

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March 28, 2017, 10:02 pm

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A man who was jailed for running a cannabis factory has been ordered to pay £16,000. Matthew Hand, aged 37, was told to cough up the cash at a confiscation hearing in Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday (March 28). The convict is currently serving a 15 month jail sentence for production of cannabis. At 5pm on February 14, 2016, Avon and Somerset police were called by the landlord of a business premises on the Haydon Industrial Estate, Radstock. He found two rooms that had been built at the rear...