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Action Fraud warn head teachers about scam emails holding schools...
Scammers are targeting head teachers with a computer virus intended to hold their files to ransom. Fraudsters are cold-calling education establishments to get personal contact information for head...
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Yeovil paedophile downloaded images and videos of children in...
A Yeovil man who was found in possession of pornographic images and videos of children has been sent to Taunton Crown Court to be sentenced.Benjamin Lee downloaded the indecent material from the...
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Violent mugging in South Street Yeovil, four men from Yeovil and...
Four men have been charged with committing robbery and assault on two victims in Yeovil.The four appeared at Taunton Crown Court today to face charges linked to an incident last year.The defendants...
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Online child sex viewing levels in Taunton and Somerset revealed...
A charity that helps people stop viewing child sex abuse images online has revealed how many people have turned to it for help in the last year.New figures from the Stop it Now! Get Help child...
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Mole Valley Farmers tweed cap and dog coat thief 'feeling like an...
A man who walked out of a Frome store without paying for a tweed cap and dog coat told police he felt like an idiot after he was caught.Henry Cooper had gone to Mole Valley Farmers without his bank...
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M5 police car crash driver loses career following motorway smash...
A police officer crashed at 85mph while transporting a detainee on the M5 - causing another car to flip onto its roof.Nicholas Hyam-Chapple denied the detainee's claim he had been swigging an energy...
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Yeovil man to stand trial for grooming and downloading hundreds...
A Yeovil man has appeared in court charged with downloading hundreds of indecent images of children from the internet and grooming a 12-year-old girl.Keith Locke, 53, of Longmead, was in the dock...
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Dorset Police appeal for help to find offenders after 8 cows...
Eight cows have been stolen from a West Country farm.The police are appealing for help from the public to track down those responsible for the theft at the weekend.Offenders cut padlocks and broke into...
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Somerset man, 49, facing charges of attempted rape and sexual...
A Long Sutton man has appeared in court facing charges of attempted rape and serious sexual assaults on a young boy.Alan Edward Blakemore, 49, of Parsons Close, is charged that between June 1, 2006 and...
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Armed response from police after person 'spotted with large...
Armed police officers were called to Yeovil following reports of a person with a large knife in the town.A concerned member of the public called Avon and Somerset Constabulary on January 4 just before...
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Pregnant Yeovil beggar says she made less than £2 a day as...
Pregnant and homeless, a woman who was arrested by the police for begging in Yeovil town centre claimed she had only made under £2 that day. Surviving on benefits of £63 a fortnight, Kim Louise Hill...
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Sherborne scam warning: Oliver's Coffee House targeted with money...
A prominent business on Sherborne's high street is urging other traders to be on their guard after an attempted scam was pulled on its staff.Jane Wood, owner of Oliver's Coffee House at 19 Cheap...
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Chard woman attacked security guard who chased her down the road...
A Chard woman who was in "self-destruct mode" when she attacked a security guard who chased her down the street after she had been seen shoplifting has been sentenced to a community order by...
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Wiltshire man smashed up Frome father's van with shovel following...
Angry that his father had expressed views over his partner's sexual orientation, a man took his father's own shovel from his van and used it to smash the windows on the vehicle.Ross Martin Scott had...
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Fake police cars in South West: 9 things to know one year on from...
It's been a year since a number of reports about fake police cars trying to pull over motorists in the South West. There were reported incidents in Wiltshire, Devon and Somerset at around this time...
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Bridgwater man on trial for sex offences he allegedly carried out...
A 31-year-old from Bridgwater has gone on trial for historic sex offences against three children – said to have been perpetrated when he was just 10 years old. Andrew Margretts pleaded not guilty to 23...
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Mere Police appeal on Facebook to find 'unknown youths' suspected...
Police are looking for two "unknown youths" who were spotted acting suspiciously around cars.On Sunday (January 8) the males were seen by a member of the public trying the door handles of vehicles to...
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Yeovil man claims cannabis found in his home was put there by...
A Yeovil man accused of having a stash of cannabis in his bedside cabinet has denied the offence, claiming somebody else had put it there instead.Police searched Simon John Spalding's address after...
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Ilchester teenager assaults parents then smashes up their home...
A teenager who argued with her mother and stepfather before assaulting them and then smashing up their property in Ilchester with a sledgehammer has appeared before a special domestic violence...
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CCTV shows woman wanted over thefts from elderly women in...
Police have released images of a woman they want to speak to after a number of elderly women across Somerset had their handbags and purses stolen. A spokesman said they were appealing for the public's...
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