Gloucestershire schools warned of stranger danger after suspected...
SCHOOLS across Gloucestershire are being warned to be on their guard after a series of suspected abduction attempts. The warning was prompted after an 11-year-old boy was approached by two men in a...
View ArticleStranger danger: Second warning at Gloucestershire school
Parents have been warned to keep their children safe after a second schoolboy was approached by a group of strangers in a car. Police have been made aware of an incident involving a year seven pupil at...
View ArticleGloucester loved ones of Frankie Warren have spoken of their...
HEARTBROKEN family and friends of a young woman who took her own life after becoming worried about her hair believe it was only one reason behind her death.Although an inquest heard Frances Warren, 26,...
View Article'Rapist care worker should never have been given a job at...
A CARE worker who was employed alongside rapist Colin Stokes said he should never have been given a job there in the first place.The anonymous staff member has spoken out after Stokes pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleRichard Miles murder detectives release third man as trail goes...
DETECTIVES have released the last suspect in a cold case murder investigation. A 53-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder by officers investigating the killing of Richard Miles in 1993, has had...
View ArticleMagic mushroom stash discovered in Forest drugs search
MAGIC mushrooms were found by police when they searched an old car. Magistrates heard how after police stopped Daniel James Webb in a Range Rover in Cinderford, they returned to his Ruardean home and...
View ArticleMatson career criminal Nathan Hibberd breaks 250 burglary mark
A CAREER criminal jailed last summer for two burglaries in Gloucester has since admitted another 51 offences to police, a judge heard today. Nathan Hibberd, 39, got three and a half years imprisonment...
View ArticleThree times over the limit Gloucester civil servant crashed into...
A CIVIL servant who was three times over the drink-drive limit when he crashed into a teenage Dutch holidaymaker – causing life-changing injuries – has been jailed for two years.David Glassonbury, 46,...
View ArticlePolice, fire and Environment Agency warning as high Severn Bore...
Gloucestershire authorities are preparing for this weekend's Severn bore and tidal surges. On Saturday morning the bore will be travelling up the estuary and this will be followed by a tidal surge and...
View ArticleSeven years in jail for Gloucester man Stephen Whalley who...
A 'JEALOUS and controlling' Gloucester man who assaulted his ex-partner and stabbed a male friend of hers twice in the legs has been jailed for seven years. Stephen Whalley, 53, of Milton Ave,...
View ArticleSupport worker threatened in Stroud hostel by drunken, half-naked...
A FOUR months pregnant support worker at a hostel for the homeless cowered in terror behind her desk while ranting teenager Stuart Presdee threatened to kill her and her unborn child, a court heard. As...
View ArticleGloucester man and Nailsworth woman escape jail over starved...
A 24 year old man from Gloucester and a 40 year old woman from Nailsworth have each been given suspended prison sentences for causing unnecessary suffering to a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. On Wednesday...
View ArticlePolice hunting for good samaritans caught in M4 motorway con
Police investigating reports of an elaborate fraud along the M4 corridor are keen to hear from people who may have been targeted. Good samaritans who stopped for a lone man posing as a stranded...
View ArticleIsabella Blow monument robbed of Cotswold stone tiles
THIEVES have robbed a "monument to love" of £10,000-worth Cotswold stone tiles. The Blow family mausoleum between Painswick and Upton St Leonards has weathered 60 years of the worst of the weather atop...
View Article'I'm coming to kill you. Everyone you ever loved is going down'
EDWARD Mockford armed himself with knives and went out planning to murder his ex-fiancee but ended up robbing a terrified pensioner in the street, a court heard.The 27-year-old sent former girlfriend...
View ArticleDivorced wife will go on trial over toast and butter incident in...
WIFE Julie Ann Evans, who is accused of attacking her husband with toast and butter, will stand trial after a court heard his ear was allegedly torn during a dispute.She admitted pouring water over her...
View ArticleThieves steal van parts in Brockworth
Police are appealing for information after thieves stole external parts from a van in Brockworth. The 62-registered Ford Transit was parked in Lancaster Road, Coopers Edge, when the items were taken...
View ArticleWoman from Quedgeley bitten during dance floor brawl at...
A mother of two was bitten during an unprovoked attack while on a night out in Cheltenham, it has been alleged. Emma Davies, 23, from Quedgeley, Gloucester, claimed she was pushed the floor and then...
View ArticleConvicted Gloucester terrorist Sajid Badat expected to give...
CONVICTED Gloucester terrorist Sajid Badat is expected to give evidence against hate preacher Abu Hamza to help US prosecutors prove he was a terrorist 'with a global reach'. Badat, from Tredworth,...
View ArticleAppeal after pub fight in Tuffley
Police are appealing for witnesses after a fight outside a Gloucester pub, which left one man needing treatment for a head injury. The incident happened outside the Fox and Elm in Stroud Road, Tuffley,...
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