Yeovil paedophile pensioner Brian Younghusband admits sexual...
A Yeovil pensioner has been told he will be sent to jail after he admitted carrying out two sexual assaults on a 10-year-old girl and one on a woman.The assaults took place on dates between January and...
View ArticlePolice searching for family of dead ex-sailor with Dorset and...
Police think someone in Dorset or Devon may be related to a 78-year-old ex-sailor allegedly murdered in his Essex home.They have released a picture of Fred Payne, who died in a house fire in September,...
View ArticleBehind bars: Five Somerset criminals jailed this month
Offenders from across Somerset have been caught, prosecuted and jailed for committing crime, including assault, child abduction, making indecent photographs of children and a racist attack over the...
View ArticleExtent of antisocial behaviour revealed in private patrol logs
The extent of antisocial behaviour in Wincanton has been revealed in the logs by the town council's private security firm.Vigilant Security, which is based in Sparkford, was hired by the town council...
View ArticlePolice appeal after burglars swipe massive meat haul from...
Police are appealing for information after burglars made off with a massive amount of meat from a Somerset supermarket. Two men forced their way in the Co-operative Food store on Wells Road in Naish's...
View ArticleMan threatened to smash up Street restaurant because his laptop...
Suffering from wi-fi rage, a man kicked off in a fast food restaurant in Street, threatening to 'smash the place up', because staff wouldn't help him connect his laptop to the internet.Severin...
View ArticleAaron Brown from Milborne Port spared jail over sex assault
A man from Milborne Port has been spared jail after carrying out a sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl.Aaron Brown, aged 20, of Wheathill Way, appeared before Judge David Ticehurst at Taunton Crown...
View ArticleDorset woman, 25, sentenced for careless driving which led to...
A woman whose careless driving caused the death of a man in a head-on crash has been sentenced in court. Bekki Mills, 25, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. Mills, of Sandy Lane in...
View ArticleBridgwater man who sexually assaulted friend as she slept on sofa...
A 30-year old Bridgwater man who sexually assaulted his friend as she lay asleep on the sofa in her home has been spared jail.Robin Stanley, from Cannon Close, admitted touching the woman without her...
View ArticleUnsolved murder case of Winifred Lock, found dead in her bungalow...
Have you got information that could help to solve a 23-year-old murder mystery? On October 21, 1983, Eva Locke visited her mother-in-law, Winifred, as she often did, to help her out. Winifred, an...
View ArticleCCTV released after robber punched and kicked man in Bridgwater
A robber punched and kicked a man in Bridgwater after demanding cash from him. Police have released images of a man they want to identify in connection with the assault and robbery on the town bridge...
View ArticleBridgwater house closed by court due to drug-fuelled anti-social...
A house in Bridgwater which was the scene of constant anti-social behaviour and drug taking has been boarded up after police secured an order through the courts.Somerset Magistrates Court granted a...
View ArticleDavid Hick death in Bruton: Driver Robert Finlay challenges...
A motorist who spent the afternoon guzzling beer before getting behind the wheel and killing an elderly pedestrian today (October 21) challenged the length of his driving ban. Robert Finlay, 49, downed...
View ArticleSex offender Stephen Gadd wanted for indecent exposure by Dorset...
Detectives are hunting for a registered sex offender who is wanted in connection with an indecent exposure. Stephen Gadd has failed to attend two court hearings, one for alleged indecent exposure, and...
View ArticleScott Baird of Wells jailed: Detective describes operations faced...
The victim of a vicious attack at the hands of man who was jailed for 18 months had to undergo "several procedures" in hospital, according to the investigating officer, who has issued a strong warning...
View ArticleTemplecombe mum who abandoned daughter, 6, before drunk car crash...
A Templecombe mother, who had left her six-year-old daughter home alone when she crashed into another car while more than double the drink drive limit, has been sentenced to a community order and a 20...
View ArticleFrome man still denies three violent assaults on 'traumatised'...
A court was told that a Frome man convicted of three violent attacks on his former partner maintained that he did not do it, despite being found guilty following a trial.In one of the incidents Luke...
View ArticleMobile speed camera locations for Somerset for week commencing...
Mobile speed cameras are scheduled to be in operation at various locations Somerset throughout the coming week.Avon and Somerset Constabulary has released its schedule for mobile speed camera...
View ArticleFrome cinema fire being treated as suspicious after night time...
Firefighters have worked through the night to put out a fire at a cinema in Somerset – which investigators believe was started deliberately. Three fire engines were sent immediately to reports of a...
View ArticleFrome cinema fire: Westway tenant reassures town cinema will stay...
A cinema hit by a suspicious fire will not close, according to its tenant. Pictures have emerged from the scene of the cinema fire in the early hours of Sunday morning (October 23), which led to scores...
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