A Bradley Stoke motorist is claiming that police and community volunteers carrying out speed checks in the area have been improperly “hiding” behind road signs and bushes during their monitoring operations. Mark Setterfield, 26, claims that members of the recently formed Community Speed Watch team and assisting PCSOs are violating police guidelines that require speed traps to be clearly visible
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Police are warning cyclists to be on the alert after a spate of bicycle thefts from streets across South Gloucestershire last month. Thieves have targeted bikes left outside leisure centres, youth clubs and shops in areas as diverse as Bradley Stoke, Staple Hill, Stoke Gifford, Thornbury and Yate. Police have stepped up patrols and are liaising with local bike shops
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A man who grew cannabis plants at a rented property in Ormonds Close, Bradley Stoke, has been given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for a year. The 24-year, who also illegally by-passed the electricty supply at the house, was also handed a punishment of 100 hours of unpaid work and must pay compensation of £1,100 to the electricity company. Bradley
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Police are appealing for information following an unprovoked assault in Bradley Stoke. At around 8:30pm on Monday (15th August), a 29-year-old man was walking alone in the Three Brooks Local Nature Nature Reserve, near to Ormonds Close. He was approached from behind by two men who went on to assault him by kicking him in the head and stamping on
Continue readingThe local beat team have announced that a Community Speed Watch scheme is about to commence in Bradley Stoke. The news was first revealed at last Tuesday’s Safer and Stronger Communities Group meeting and was confirmed today in an announcement on the police website. The local police team have been looking to set up a scheme since at least June
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The July newsletter from the local police beat team includes reports on a drugs raid at a “property in Bradley Stoke” and speed checks in the Woodlands Lane area. In April, police seized 25 suspected cannabis plants with a potential street value up to £25,000 and found electricity being illegally obtained at a house in Bradley Stoke. A Bradley Stoke
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Avon and Somerset Police report that they arrested two men aged 18 and 21 in the early hours of Monday 27th June, in connection with a burglary at a home in Bradley Stoke. The news comes after a number of residents complained on the social networking site Twitter of being woken by a police helicopter hovering over their homes at
Continue readingI had some gardening stuff removed from my front drive a few days ago. Only worthless and rusty, and I’m quite glad I didn’t have to take it up the dump myself :). A neighbour claims to have spotted the folks removing it, as they thought it was somewhat unusual that somebody was on my property while I was away.
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Police are appealing for information following an incident of racially aggravated assault in Bradley Stoke on Saturday 11th June. At around 9:15pm a man and his girlfriend were walking in the fields adjacent to the Jubilee Centre (where the Community Festival had been held earlier in the day) when they were approached by two men who had verbally abused the
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Police in Bradley Stoke are appealing for information after a suspicious incident in which a 6m-high floodlight column at the town’s Brook Way Activity Centre was sawn through, causing it to fall onto the sports courts at the complex. The felling of the floodlight column late on Tuesday 17th May follows an earlier incident late last year in which a
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