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Child sexual abuse reports in Bath and Somerset rise by 18 per...
The number of reports of child sexual abuse in Bath and other parts of Somerset has risen sharply.An 18 per cent rise in reports of sexual offences against children was recorded by Avon and Somerset...
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Police on Walcot Street in Bath
Police in Bath have executed a drugs warrant at an address in the city centre.A spokesman said that despite the raid, no drugs were found and nobody has been arrested.Officers had been seen entering a...
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Three teenage girls from Bath charged with assaulting three...
Three teenage girls from Bath have been charged with assaulting three university students, also young women.The teenagers appeared before Bath magistrates on Thursday jointly charged with threatening...
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Petition launched to save Pit Bull facing death penalty
A petition launched to save an American Pit Bull from a death penalty has gained the support of almost 5,000 people.Carl Williams-Nwazota has launched the campaign after his dog, called Sugar, was...
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Becky Watts: More charges brought against Shauna Hoare and Nathan...
Avon and Somerset Police have announced further charges relating to the alleged murder of Bristol teenager Becky Watts.Her step brother Nathan Matthews had been charged with her murder. Further...
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Somerset man convicted of mother's murder: regional news
A 27-year-old man has been convicted of murdering his mother.Alex McDonald, of Hilly Park, in the Norton Fitzwarren of Taunton, was found guilty of murdering his mother Catherine following a trial at...
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Man appears in court charged with assault in William Hill...
A 55-year-old man from Bath has appeared in court charged with assault after he was arrested at a betting shop in Lansdown Road.Julian Rouse from Brookfield Park in Weston appeared before Bath...
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Rebecca Minnock to appear at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday
Rebecca Minnock, the mother from Somerset who went on the run with her young son, is to appear in court today (Thursday June 24).The 35-year-old faces committal proceedings launched by her ex-partner....
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Man charged with assaulting Bath police officer
A 33-year-old man from Bathford has been charged with assaulting a police officer and for possessing cannabis.An officer on duty in Bath was allegedly attacked on Bridge Street in the early hours of...
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Rebecca Minnock free thanks to "mercy" of ex-partner,...
Rebecca Minnock was not given a jail sentence thanks to the "mercy" of her ex-partner, a furious judge told the runaway mother.Judge Wildblood QC delivered his judgment in the Bristol Crown Court on...
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Coach firm and driver sentenced after boy falls from bus onto...
A coach driver and operator have been sentenced following an incident in which a 13-year-old boy fell from an emergency exit onto the M49 in Somerset. The boy, who was part of an under 13s rugby tour...
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Rise in prosecutions for violence crimes against women and...
The number of prosecutions for violence against women and children has risen in Bath and Somerset.Some 2085 offenders were brought to justice by Avon and Somerset Police last year, 151 more than the...
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Hundreds of sheep stolen from Somerset farms could be ending up...
Sheep rustlers have stolen hundreds of lambs and their mothers from Somerset farms, and the meat may be ending up on the dinner plates of Bath residents.Nearly 500 animals went missing from farms...
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Bath beggar banned under district's first Criminal Behaviour...
A persistent beggar who became one of the first people in Bath and North East Somerset to be served a Criminal Behaviour Order breached the order just a fortnight later.Jenny Dinmore, 39, of Julian...
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Motorist guilty of "serious offence of road rage"...
Ritchie Gilling, of Wellow Lane, Peasedown St John has been jailed for 12 weeks for an offence of dangerous driving.Gilling had denied the offence, which took place on August 17 last year, but he was...
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Regional news: Police seek suspect in unprovoked attack on a man...
Police are appealing for help to identify a man suspected of an assault following an unprovoked attack on an innocent bystander outside a nightclub.The victim was waiting for a taxi outside the...
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Latest cases from Bath Magistrates' Court
Jamie Read, of Sedgemoor Road, Bath, has been ordered to pay £700 compensation for damaging a police custody cell and intercom. Read was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £60, court costs of...
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Latest cases at Bath Magistrates' Court
Carl Ricketts of Watermead Close, Bath, has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting two charges of assault. Ricketts committed the two offences on May 22 this year. He was told to pay...
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Man arrested after stabbings of 17-year-old girl and others in...
A man has been arrested after a teenage girl was stabbed in Yeovil.Police were called just before 7.30pm on Sunday June 28 to King Arthur's Drive, Yeovil, where a suspect had been detained by a member...
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John 'Goldfinger' Palmer, Bath's most notorious crook, believed...
Bath's most notorious criminal John "Goldfinger" Palmer is believed to have died.It has been reported that the timeshare conman, who used to live in Bath and was once one of Britain's richest...
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