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Yeovil teenager David Fenn admits dangerous driving charges
A teenager who drove his car at a police officer when challenged about blocking the entrance for emergency vehicles at Yeovil Police Station has pleaded guilty to two counts of dangerous driving.David...
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Crewkerne crime: Violent and sexual offences rise by 63 per cent...
Violent and sexual offences in a Somerset town have risen by nearly 63 per cent in the past 12 months.According to figures released by Avon and Somerset Police, 153 of these offences were committed...
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Weston-super-Mare cars damaged in Dunster Crescent, 15-year-old...
Several cars have been damaged in Weston-super-Mare and police are appealing for witnesses.Cars were damaged in the Dunster Crescent area of the town in the early hours of Friday (September 30).A...
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Yeovil teaching assistant Hamid Bhatti pestered because he...
A teaching assistant who slept with a 15-year-old got lots of attention from girls at the school because they thought he looked like One Direction's Zayn Malik, a court heard today.Hamid Bhatti, who is...
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Man arrested for murder after Dorset woman, 26, dies
A murder investigation is under way in Dorset following the suspicious death of a young woman on Sunday (October 2). Dorset Police were called out to an address on Harley Gardens in Bournemouth at...
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Langport man admits drink driving after concerned supermarket...
When staff at a Langport supermarket suspected a customer had been drinking they waved down a passing police community support officer who was driving past.They pointed out Alexander Gordon McKerrow...
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Yeovil teenager accused of assaulting girl, 17, ordered to stand...
A Yeovil teenager accused of assaulting a 17-year-old girl – causing her to black out momentarily – has been ordered to stand trial before Somerset Magistrates.Joe Peter Gaylard, 18, of Stiby Road,...
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Bruton man to stand trial for alleged assault which occurred in...
A Somerset man charged with assaulting a woman during an incident in the town has been ordered to stand trial before Somerset Magistrates.Timothy John Hix, 54, of Patwell Street, Bruton, appeared in...
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Sherborne businessman Michael Birchall accused of £77k VAT...
A Sherborne businessman accused of tax evasion has had his case adjourned for the second time amid fears he does not understand the charges against him.The court heard that 73-year-old Michael Maxwell...
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Assault on Crewkerne man prompts police witness appeal
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted in Crewkerne over the weekend. The victim was assaulted just before 8pm on Sunday (October 2) when he went out to the communal bins area on...
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Chard man accused of drink-driving denies he was driving car when...
A man accused of failing to comply with a breath test after being suspected of drink-driving claimed he was not the driver of the car at the time.Kurt Unsworth, 24, of Stringfellow Crescent in Chard,...
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Sherborne man pleads guilty to burglary and aggravated vehicle...
A Sherborne man will be sentenced later this year after pleading guilty to burglary and driving a stolen car over the drink drive limit.Robert Michael Davies, 25, of Coombe, Sherborne, appeared in...
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Yeovil teaching assistant Hamid Bhatti tells court 'I had nothing...
A 22-year-old teaching assistant who slept with a 15-year-old pupil from a Yeovil school said he was 'nervous and scared' when police originally arrested him on suspicion of grooming her.In his second...
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Young Churchill Academy girl 'did absolutely the right thing' say...
Police have said they are investigating a report of a young girl being approached by a man in a vehicle outside a Somerset school.The girl was approached by a man in a grey Ford outside Churchill...
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Yeovil man likely to jailed for six months after being found...
A Yeovil man who was arrested for a drugs offence then asked the police to go back to his car and fetch a bag containing his keys but forgot he also had a knife inside it.The officer found the lock...
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Yeovil teenager Dean Lock took knife to girlfriend's home after...
A Yeovil teenager drank six pints of cider and went to his former partner's home with a nine-inch knife - on the same day he was handed a restraining order banning him from going near her.The alarm was...
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Yeovil man said he was 'no good' at shoplifting when caught...
A court was told that a Yeovil man who was caught red-handed stealing a DVD box set didn't go shoplifting very often as he was "no good at it".Malcolm David Carter was desperate to buy back a guitar...
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Burnham-on-Sea Superdrug ram raid - police searching for three...
Police are hunting ram raiders who smashed into a high street store in Burnham-on-Sea and stole a large quantity of stock. The three men targeted the Superdrug store on Burnham-on-Sea's High Street for...
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Lidl pledges to stop suspicious fundraiser collecting outside...
A supermarket chain will be taking steps to make sure a 'charity' stall is never allowed outside its stores again.Warnings were posted on Facebook in September about a potentially bogus fundraiser...
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Yeovil teaching assistant Hamid Bhatti jailed for abduction and...
A teaching assistant from a Yeovil school who had sex with a teenage schoolgirl has been jailed for five years after a jury found him guilty of child abduction and two allegations of sexual activity...
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