Crime

Pupils overjoyed after police find stolen computers

Teachers Caroline Condon, Janie Butterwith and Katy Shields with PC Saren Isaac, George Doe, Sam Thorne, Alissia Parsons and Rosie Werring MDG050310_MT02_01

Thursday, March 11, 2010

COMPUTER equipment worth thousands of pounds has been returned to a Tiverton school, following a police raid on two nearby addresses.

Excited children were reunited with the IT equipment when police visited Castle Primary to return the missing hi-tech kit last...

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Marshall is new weapon in fight against crime

Thursday, March 11, 2010

POLICE in Tiverton have a new weapon in the fight against crime — pensioner volunteer Marshall Hawes. The 69-year-old will be encouraging...

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Three awards for PCs who beat arson attack

PC Mike Atkins, who stopped an arson attack

Thursday, March 11, 2010

TWO police officers, who put their lives on the line to tackle a drunk as he tried to set fire to a Cullompton pub, have received three awards for...

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Warning over asbestos risk in old school building

Thursday, March 11, 2010

POLICE warn asbestos could be contained in a Bradninch building which has been broken into in recent weeks. Youths are suspected of drinking and...

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Thieves steal copper piping from Age Concern building

Thursday, March 11, 2010

THIEVES have struck at the new home of Mid Devon charity Age Concern just weeks before it is set to open. Age Concern Tiverton, Cullompton and...

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Man, 34, jailed after making hoax bomb call

Thursday, March 11, 2010

HOAX caller Mark Stevens has been jailed for telling police there was a bomb in a shopping centre previously targeted by a real terrorist. Stevens,...

Police reveal details of stolen jewellery

Thursday, March 11, 2010

POLICE have issued details about items of stolen jewellery in the hope it will provide a breakthrough in their investigations. The jewellery came from...

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Crash pilot tells Gazette that he thought he was going to die

The jet finally came to rest straddling a hedge

Thursday, March 04, 2010

A JET pilot who was forced to crash land in Witheridge last year has told how he feared he was about to die. Thirty-five-year-old Dan Arlett was...

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Computers and cameras stolen

Thursday, March 04, 2010

COMPUTERS, laptops and digital cameras have been stolen from a Tiverton school just weeks after it unveiled premises refurbished at a cost of...

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Cows are freed

Thursday, March 04, 2010

FIRE crews rescued three cows that became stuck in a slurry pit on a Mid Devon farm last week. Firefighters went to the farm, near the village of East...

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