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  • Calls for Backwell cashpoint to be put back as shoppers head for Nailsea

    By Carol_Deacon at 11:18 on 02/02/12
    Backwell cashpoint
    Backwell Parish Council chairman Bob Taylor has called for the cash-point damaged in a new year ram raid to be reinstated with increased security. The 24-hour Link cash-point, at Rodney Road, was put in by HSBC nearly a fortnight after it closed the village bank on November 27 last year. But within two weeks it was targeted by ram raiders in the early hours of New Year's Day.  As part of the original application the parish council...
  • Bicycle thieves caught at Nailsea School

    By Carol_Deacon at 13:02 on 10/01/12
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    CCTV caught two bike thieves red-handed at Nailsea School. Police say when confronted the culprits who had no direct association with the school and didn't live locally both admitted the offences. Nailsea School operations manager Chris Perry said: "When the school was rebuilt in 2009 some concerns were expressed about the installation of CCTV cameras and what they would be used for but following a spate of bicycles thefts from...
  • Ram-raiders hit cashpoint in Backwell

    By Carol_Deacon at 15:22 on 05/01/12
    HSBC ATM and BT kiosk Rodney Road now out of order
    A Backwell wine merchant predicted problems with the new village cashpoint which was ram-raided on New Year's Day. Raiders used two stolen vehicles to attack the automated HSBC bank at Rodney Road only weeks after it was installed on December 7. Planning permission for the ATM and BT telephone box was granted in October 2010 despite objections from Backwell Parish Council and several residents including Aimee Davies, owner of Aimee's...
  • Drug addict steals from the home of Nailsea OAPs

    By Carol_Deacon at 10:15 on 27/12/11
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    A self-confessed drug addict admitted breaking into the home of a Nailsea pensioner and stealing from a supermarket, reports the Bristol Evening Post. Lee Pickles, aged 33, who gave an address of Wick Road, Brislington, was seen seen stuffing two bottles of whisky down his trousers at the supermarket in Clifton Down, Bristol Crown Court heard. When store staff grabbed him he produced one bottle, downed it, and crawled under a table in...
  • Police anti-drugs Christmas message

    By Carol_Deacon at 15:40 on 23/12/11
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    Police have issues a Christmas warning for would-be drug dealers and those who abuse illegal substances. In 2011 police in Avon and Somerset seized more than 20,000 cannabis plants and more than eight kilos of amphetamines in 2011. More than seven kilos of cocaine and more than eight kilos of heroin was also been seized as well as more than 9,000 ecstasy tablets.  This success is down to a year of enforcement and proactive...

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