Police arrested a 16-year-old man following an incident of race hate crime in Patchway last night (Tuesday 3rd July). Officers were called to a shop at The Parade, Coniston Road, at about 7pm, following reports that a group of young men were being abusive towards a female Asian worker. The suspects had made off when officers arrived and a search
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Witnesses and information are being sought following a distraction burglary in Patchway last week. At around 4pm on Friday 22nd June, an 86-year-old woman was at home in Callicroft Road, when a man knocked at the door asking about building work. The lady let the man into the house. When the man left, the victim noticed money had been taken.
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a 44-year-old man was assaulted in the car park of the Coniston Community Centre in Coniston Road, Patchway. It happened at about 11:30pm on Saturday 2nd June 2012, when he was set upon by four men. Members of the public came to his aid, including a 41-year-old woman who was also assaulted.
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Local subcontractors interested in getting involved in Avon and Somerset Police’s multi-million pound estate transformation, which includes the construction of a new complex on the Gloucester Road in Patchway, are invited to attend a ‘Meet the Buyer’ event at the Hilton Bristol Hotel in Bradley Stoke on Wednesday 13th June. The event is being organised by Miller Construction and Cofley,
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The Patchway neighbourhood police team is inviting local people to a Senior Citizens’ Day this Wednesday (4th April). Officers hope the event will help to prevent older people from falling victim to doorstep criminals. These can be thieves who talk their way into homes to steal, often by claiming to be from a water or power company, or ‘rogue traders’
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Avon and Somerset Police have announced the selection of a preferred bidder for a package of building projects that includes a new custody centre and police station on the former Bensons site on Gloucester Road in Patchway. The custody centre, housing 48 cells, will be one of three centralised units across the force and will be used by officers in
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A Patchway man has been jailed for 18 months after he pleaded guilty to growing cannabis for “self-medication”, reports the Bristol Evening Post. Luke Bickford had been arrested in September 2011 following a police raid that discovered 48 cannabis plants growing in a back room at his Bradley Road home. The raid followed a tip-off and a check by the
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A man has been arrested for possession of illegal drugs after he attempted to run away after a car was stopped by police in Patchway. The officers involved were working on Operation Tonic, Avon and Somerset Police’s Christmas anti-drink/drug driving campaign that was launched recently at Aztec West. Later, at the police station, the man was found to be in
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Avon and Somerset Police’s Operation Tonic Christmas drink and drug driving campaign started today (Thursday 1st December) and the A38 Gloucester Road near the Aztec West Roundabout was the site of one of the first checkpoints to be set up. Officers from the force’s Road Policing Unit were randomly stopping vehicles on the southbound carriageway just south of the roundabout
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A dodgy kebab caused a Patchway man to breach his community order, according to a report in today’s Bristol Evening Post. Jordan Hendry was in Bristol Crown Court to explain why he had twice not turned up to do unpaid work in October. His solicitor Dianne Heys revealed: “Mr Hendry says on one of those occasions – he can’t be
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