| Crimes,
Fires & Accidents
[31 AUG 00] NEW TEAM TO MAKE HILLFIELDS
A SAFER PLACE
A new crime fighting team moves in to
Hillfields tomorrow looking for long-term solutions to
problems in the inner-city area. MORE
[30 AUG 00] RECRUITS
SWORN IN AS RECRUITMENT DRIVE BEGINS
More police will be on the beat in
Warwickshire with a dozen new recruits being sworn in this
afternoon. MORE
[29 AUG 00]
PEE-WEE PROJECT UP FOR AWARD
A joint police and
community operation to combat motorcycle crime is being
considered for a prestigious national award. MORE
[29 AUG 00] NUNEATON
SHOP STAFF ROBBED AT GUNPOINT
Shop staff in Nuneaton were robbed at
gunpoint by three men who took cash and cigarettes. MORE
[29 AUG 00] PASSENGERS
ATTACK AND ROB TAXI DRIVER
A taxi driver needed hospital treatment
after he was robbed and assaulted by two passengers in
Bedworth. MORE
[28 AUG 00] ARMED
RAID ON SPHINX SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
Staff locking up a Coventry club were
ordered back inside by robbers who then fled with cash and
stole a car. MORE
[27 AUG 00] MOTORCYCLIST
DEAD AFTER STRATFORD CRASH
A motorcyclist has died after a five
vehicle crash in Stratford on Friday. MORE
[25 AUG 00] TWO
IN HOSPITAL AFTER LEAMINGTON CLUB FIGHT
Two nightclubbers were taken to hospital
and one man was Leamington nightclub. MORE
[24 AUG 00] MYSTERY
BODY FOUND IN COVENTRY HOTEL
Coventry’s coroner
is appealing for help in revealing the identity of a football
fan who was found dead in a city hotel. MORE
[23 AUG 00] RUGBY
MAN KILLED AFTER ELEPHANT TRAMPLING
A man from Rugby on an African safari was
tramped to death by an elephant. Edward Harrison, 28, was
killed in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya. MORE
[23 AUG 00] EMERGENCY
OP FOR MAN WHO CHASED INTRUDERS
A workman is fighting for his life after
injuring himself while chasing off intruders from school
grounds in Rugby yesterday evening. MORE
[22 AUG 00] THIEVES
ATTACK STAFF AND STEAL SKY BLUE KIT
Armed thieves got away with replica Sky
Blue shirts when they raided the club shop yesterday afternoon
during opening hours. MORE
[22 AUG 00] ATTEMPTED
MURDER BID ON LEAMINGTON TEENAGER
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of
attempted murder after a man was stabbed at his home in
Leamington in a domestic dispute yesterday afternoon. MORE
[22 AUG 00] MAN
HELPS POSTAL WORKER THREATENED WITH GUN
A postal worker was threatened with a gun
and robbed as he made a delivery at a post office in Stoke
Aldermoor yesterday morning. MORE
[21 AUG 00] WOMAN
FIGHTS OFF LEAMINGTON SEX ATTACKER
A woman fought off an attacker who
indecently assaulted her as she walked home after a night in
Leamington town centre in the early hours of the Saturday
morning. MORE
[21 AUG 00] EIGHT
MORE ARRESTED AFTER GUN FIRED IN STREET
Further arrests have been made by Rugby
police following a fight where shots were fired in the street
on a housing estate last week. MORE
[21 AUG 00] SILVER
GUNS POINTED AT OFF-LICENCE STAFF
Masked men brandishing
silver handguns stole money and cigarettes from a Coventry
off-licence last night. MORE
[20 AUG 00] SKEGNESS
SEA RESCUE FOR COVENTRY SURFER
A Coventry holidaymaker had to be rescued
Baywatch-style after he got into difficulties in the sea at
Skegness today. MORE
[18 AUG 00] GUN
FIRED DURING FIGHT ON RUGBY ESTATE
Shots were fired during a fight in Rugby
which left one man in hospital. Police were called to an
incident after reports of a street fight and a gun being used
in Seathwaite. MORE
[18 AUG 00] ONE
DEAD, ONE CRITICAL AFTER A46 SMASH
A woman driver was killed and a man left
critical in hospital after a head-on smash on the A46 in south
Warwickshire yesterday morning. MORE
[18 AUG 00] COVENTRY
NUDIST WARNED AT COURT APPEARANCE
Coventry nudity
campaigner Vincent Bethell has got in trouble for trying to
appear in court without any clothes on. MORE
[17 AUG 00] THREE
ARRESTED AFTER RUGBY ARSON ATTACKS
Three men have been arrested by police
investigating two arson attacks in Rugby earlier this week. MORE
[17 AUG 00] SKY BLUES JOIN BOYS IN BLUE
AGAINST YOBS
Coventry City have
made an important signing on the eve of the Premiership season
as the club joins forces with the police against
troublemakers. MORE
[17 AUG 00] HOTLINE
LAUNCHED TO TACKLE GRAVE THEFTS
Visitors to Coventry’s
cemeteries are being asked to stay alert for suspicious
behaviour after a spate of thefts from graves. MORE
[16 AUG 00] HELP
CATCH ARSONISTS PLEA FROM RUGBY MAYOR
A team of 35 officers is working to catch
the arsonists who set two Rugby homes alight in the middle of
the night. MORE
[16 AUG 00] HENLEY
MOTORCYCLIST DIES IN TRACTOR SMASH
A motorcyclist died after he was in
collision with a tractor in south Warwickshire yesterday. MORE
[16 AUG 00] COVENTRY
PAIR ARRESTED IN ANIMAL RIGHTS RAID
Police from
Cambridgeshire raided a house in Coventry today as part of an
operation against suspected animal rights activists.
MORE
[16 AUG 00] HELICOPTER
PILOT CRASHED IN CLOUD
A helicopter pilot who
became disoriented in cloud as he flew to Coventry said “we’re
in trouble” shortly before crashing. MORE
[15 AUG 00] CAN
YOU HELP FIND MISSING 'VULNERABLE' LUCY?
Police are concerned for welfare of a
Rugby woman, who has been missing from home for four days. MORE
[15 AUG 00] OFFICE
RAIDERS ATTACK AND ROB WORKER
Masked
men burst in on a workman, and smacked him with their gun then
ran with £350 from his wallet. MORE
[15 AUG 00] RUGBY
ARSONISTS STRIKE TWICE IN THE NIGHT
Residents were led from their beds in the
middle of the night after arsonists struck at two homes in
Rugby this morning. MORE
[14 AUG 00] ROBBERS
USE GUN AND STEAL A PIZZA THE TAKINGS
Armed robbers brandished a gun when they
struck at a pizza shop in Rugby in the early hours of
yesterday morning. MORE
[14 AUG 00] BABY
DIES AT MOTORBIKE BULLDOG BASH
Police have said the death of a
five-month-old baby at the Bulldog Bash event in South
Warwickshire is not suspicious. MORE
[14 AUG 00] BALACLAVA
MAN THREATENS LONE CASHIER
A robber in a balaclava used a knife or
syringe in a late-night robbery at Leamington petrol station.
MORE
[14 AUG 00] HOMELESS
MAN SUFFERS BRAIN INJURY IN ATTACK
A homeless man
suffered a brain haemorrhage after being set upon by a thug in
Coventry city centre yesterday. MORE
[14 AUG 00] BOY
ATTACKED AND ROBBED OF HIS BIKE
A teenage boy was robbed of his bike as
he rode through northern Coventry.
MORE
[11 AUG 00] COUNCIL
WORKER KILLED BY INSECT STING
A Coventry City
Council employee died yesterday after he was stung by an
insect while clearing a garden in Wood End. MORE
[11 AUG 00] HUNDREDS
MORE OFFICERS FOR THE AREA
More than 240 extra
police officers are being taken on in Warwickshire and the
West Midlands to increase the numbers of bobbies on the
beat. MORE
[11 AUG 00] TEENAGER
DIES IN ROAD CRASH
A teenager was killed
last night when the car in which he was driving lost control
and hit a tree near Nuneaton. MORE
[09 AUG 00] TEENAGER ROBBED AFTER HE
OFFERED CASH
A teenager gave money to two strangers
who then attacked him and stole his mobile phone last night. MORE
[08 AUG 00] NEW
TOP COP WILL PUT MORE BOBBIES ON THE BEAT
The public expects to see
more uniformed officers on the streets of Warwickshire
- and the new chief constable pledges that is what they will
get. MORE
[08 AUG 00] MAN STABBED IN HILLFIELDS
FLATS ATTACK
A man was stabbed seven times while he
was waiting for a lift in a block of flats in Hillfields last
night. MORE
[08 AUG 00] PIZZA DELIVERER ATTACKED
AROUND THE HEAD
A pizza delivery driver needed hospital
treatment after he was robbed while taking food to a Keresley
address.
MORE
[07 AUG 00] COVENTRY MAN IN BEACHY HEAD
MYSTERY
The body of a Coventry
man has been found at the bottom of the notorious Beachy Head
cliffs in Sussex.
MORE
[07 AUG 00] PENSIONER STABBED IN STREET
ATTACK
A pensioner is being
treated in hospital after he was stabbed in the back in a
Coventry street in broad daylight yesterday.
MORE
[07 AUG 00] ASBESTOS FEAR IN COLLEGE
ARSON ATTACK
Arsonists caused an
asbestos scare when they set light to an out-building at
Coventry Technical College yesterday.
MORE
[04 AUG 00] BATONS USED IN COVENTRY
STORE RAID
A female member of
staff was grabbed around the throat by armed raiders at a
Coventry supermarket today.
MORE
[04 AUG 00] TEENAGERS ARRESTED IN
VILLAGE DRUGS RAID
Police have arrested a woman and a group
of youths following a drugs operation in Keresley.
MORE
[04 AUG 00] COVENTRY MAN KILLED IN A46
VAN SMASH
A Coventry man was killed when his JCB
was in collision with a van on a south Warwickshire road, near
Bidford.
MORE
[03 AUG 00] FAKE INTERNET GOODS SEIZED
IN COVENTRY
A man could be facing
criminal charges after fake goods being sold over the internet
were found at a house in Coventry.
MORE
[03 AUG 00] ROBBERS CAUSE CRASH - THEN
STEAL BMW
Robbers caused a crash with a woman
motorist and then drove off in her convertible BMW car.
MORE
[02 AUG 00] DRIVER DIES IN ROAD CRASH
A driver has been killed in a collision
on the Fosse Way in the far south of Warwickshire.
MORE
[01 AUG 00] WYKEN MOTHER KNOCKED
UNCONSCIOUS
A
family is still recovering from an attack where two men forced
their way into a Coventry home and knocked a young mother
unconscious.
MORE
[01 AUG 00] FATAL LORRY COLLISION IN
LEAMINGTON
A pedestrian died
after a collision with a lorry in the centre of Leamington’s
Old Town.
MORE
[31 JUL 00] ARSONIST STRIKES IN
ERNESFORD GRANGE
A Coventry family had
a lucky escape when an arsonist tried to set their home
alight.
MORE
[31 JUL 00] TWO DIE IN NORTH
WARWICKSHIRE CRASHES
Two men died on North
Warwickshire roads in separate single-vehicle collisions over
the weekend.
MORE
[31 JUL 00] WARWICK MAN DIES AFTER CAR
LEAVES A46
A Warwick man has died
after his car left the A46 Kenilworth bypass on
Saturday.
MORE
[27 JUL 00] GUN THREAT IN WARWICK PUB
RAID
Drinkers and staff
were told to get on the floor by two men brandishing a brick
and a sawn-off shotgun.
MORE
[26 JUL 00] CYCLIST KILLED IN A444
RUSH-HOUR SMASH
A cyclist was killed
this morning in a crash that left a main road in north
Warwickshire closed through the rush hour.
MORE
[26 JUL 00] TOBACCO CLAIM SENDS
£19,000 UP IN SMOKE
Traders who said a £7
pack could help smokers give up the weed have paid £19,000 in
court fines and costs in Leamington.
MORE
[24 JUL 00] SHOTS FIRED AS RAIDERS FLEE
WITHOUT CASH
Shots were fired by
robbers trying to steal money from a Coventry Indian
restaurant yesterday, but the offenders fled empty-handed.
MORE
[22 JUL 00] NUNEATON RAPE WAS A HOAX
A hunt
for a rapist in Nuneaton has been called off after the alleged
victim confessed she made the incident up.
MORE
[21 JUL 00] ASTLEYS
CARRIES ON DESPITE BLAZE
Coventry's oldest family firm have told
customers that it is business as usual following an arson
attack at their city centre factory. MORE
[20 JUL 00] ATTEMPTED
MURDER CHARGE AFTER RUGBY ATTACK
A Rugby man has been charged with
attempted murder after an attack in the town centre.
MORE
[20 JUL 00] ASBESTOS
FEAR AFTER FACTORY ARSON
Asbestos was released into the air in
Coventry last night after arsonists set fire to a store at a
clothing company. MORE
[19 JUL 00] DRUG
DEALER'S CASH STASH HANDED TO POLICE
Police have been given £57,000 that was
found on a Coventry drug dealer caught with more than
£600,000 of illegal substances. MORE
[19 JUL 00] ELECTRICIAN
FINED FOR SHOCKING WORK
A Coventry electrician has been fined
for shoddy work that left a live parts of a fusebox exposed.
MORE
[18 JUL 00] CRIME
RISE SHOCK FOR COVENTRY
Crime in the West Midlands force area is
growing faster than in any other part of the country, but
Warwickshire has seen only a tiny increase in offences.
MORE
[18 JUL 00] MOTORIST DIES AFTER TRUCK
COLLISION
A motorist died after a smash with a truck that closed a
main road near Southam for all of yesterday afternoon. MORE
[17 JUL 00] TEENAGERS PRAISED AFTER
BRAVE RESCUE
Four Rugby teenagers have been praised by police after they
rescued a boy who had fallen into a reservoir. MORE
[17 JUL 00] SNATCH ATTEMPT ON RUGBY
TEENAGER
A 15-year-old girl had a lucky escape when a man tried to
snatch her from a telephone box in Rugby. MORE
[16 JUL 00] MAN DEAD IN BIDFORD CAR
CRASH
A man is dead after a Land Rover Discovery overturned in
the early hours of Sunday morning. MORE
[16 JUL 00] ARMED ROBBERY AT BEDWORTH
BOOKIES
Police are seeking drinkers in a Bedworth pub who may have
seen two men before they robbed a bookmakers shop at
gunpoint. MORE
[14 JUL 00] CHAIN SNATCHED FROM AROUND
VICTIM'S NECK
A Coventry man was left 'very shaken' after he was robbed
of a £190 gold chain snatched from around his neck. MORE
[13 JUL 00] INDECENT ATTACKER CALMLY
WALKS AWAY
A woman who was indecently assaulted on a Leamington street
shouted at her attacker, and he just walked off. MORE
[13 JUL 00] CONTRACTORS IN HOSPITAL
AFTER LIFT ACCIDENT
An investigation is underway after an industrial accident
at a Warwick industrial plant put two contractors in hospital.
MORE
[12 JUL 00] MAN ON FIVE ROBBERY CHARGES
A man has been remanded in custody following a series of
armed raids in Coventry and Rugby. MORE
[12 JUL 00] GIVE ME THE PHONE, OR I
WILL STAB YOU
A man walking through the city centre was told to hand over
his mobile phone or be stabbed. MORE
[12 JUL 00] RUGBY WOMAN THREATENED BY
CYCLIST WITH KNIFE
A man on a bike used a knife to try and rob a woman cyclist
in the dark late last night. MORE
[11 JUL 00] ARMED MAN FLEES POST OFFICE
AFTER CHALLENGE
A skinny man held up a Warwick post office when he walked
in with a gun and demanded money. MORE
[11 JUL 00] ROBBERS ATTACK SHOP AT
CLOSING TIME
Two women were set on by thugs who threatened them with a
pole, and stole money and spirits, from the shop as they
closed up last night. MORE
[10 JUL 00] WOMAN KICKED, ROBBED AND
PUNCHED FOR £40
A woman who was knocked to the ground by another woman, and
then kicked by two men, ended up in hospital. MORE
[10 JUL 00] TEENAGE CYCLIST ATTACKED BY
GANG MEMBER
A teenage cyclist was left with a broken collarbone and
cuts to his mouth, following an attack as he was riding along
a Coventry street. MORE
[07 JUL 00] GIRL FIGHTS OFF THREE BIKE
ROBBERS
Police have called a teenage Coventry girl who struggled
with three robbers trying to take her bike as ‘brave’.
MORE
[05 JUL 00] ABDUCTION THREAT TO
SCHOOLGIRL
Parents have been warned to be on their guard after a man
tried to entice a schoolgirl into his car in Coventry. MORE
[04 JUL 00] ARMED
RAID AT RAINBOWS
A member of staff at a Coventry nightclub was tied up and
threatened with a knife in an armed raid last night. MORE
[03 JUL 00] TWO
INJURED IN NUNEATON RAID
Thieves with guns struck at a Nuneaton venue, fleeing with
hundreds of pounds after injuring two people in a raid. MORE
[03 JUL 00] WOMAN
DIES IN CANLEY HOUSE FIRE
A woman died this morning in a house fire in Canley. MORE
[03 JUL 00] BLAZE
DESTROYS GIBBET HILL HOUSE
Thirty firefighters were called in to tackle a house blaze
close to the University of Warwick yesterday. MORE
[03 JUL 00] PLANE
OVERSHOOTS AT BAGINTON
An investigation is underway after a plane overshot the
runway at Coventry Airport, broke through the perimeter fence
and ended up on a road on Saturday morning. MORE
[03 JUL 00] MOTORIST
INJURED NEAR SOUTHAM
A motorist is in hospital with serious injuries after his
car left the road and hit a tree. MORE
[01 JUL 00] THREE
DIE IN M6 PILE-UP
Three people died after a nine-vehicle pile-up on the M6
near Rugby in the Friday night rush hour. MORE
[01 JUL 00] FOUR
WOMEN IN RIVER ANKER CRASH
Four young women from Nuneaton, involved in the accident
where their car left the road and went into the river Anker in
north Warwickshire, have been named. MORE
[01 JUL 00] ROBBERY
IN EARLSDON
A man walking home was robbed in Melbourne Road, Earlsdon,
late on Friday night. MORE
[30 JUN 00] MOTORBIKE
THIEVES ESCAPE WITH JEWELS
Police are appealing for
witnesses after robbers pulled up outside a city jewellers and
smashed their way into the front window display to steal
jewels. MORE
[30 JUN 00] MAN
THREATENED WITH TOASTER
A man was threatened with an
electric toaster by a robber who stole his money and jewellery.
MORE
[29 JUN 00] PHONE
STOLEN IN ROAD RAGE ON THE A46
A
motorist who honked his horn at a driver on the A46 ended up
in a road rage incident where his mobile phone was taken, and
threats were made. MORE
[29 JUN 00] WOLSTON
MAN AIRLIFTED TO HOSPITAL
A motorcyclist was airlifted to
hospital after a road crash in a rural spot off the A5 near
Newton. MORE
[29 JUN 00] WARNING
- KEEP AWAY FROM THE RIVER ANKER
Fish
were killed, and people warned to keep away from the river
after polluted water from a chemical factory leaked into a
watercourse. MORE
[29 JUN 00] NEW
TOP COP FOR WARWICKSHIRE
Warwickshire
Police has a new top cop – with the appointment of the
deputy from a neighbouring force as chief constable. MORE
[28 JUN 00] OPERATION
HAS IMPACT AS BURGLARIES FALL
Burglaries
in Warwickshire have fallen by 40 per cent since Police
brought in Operation Impact, which included writing to known
offenders. MORE
[28 JUN 00] LEAMINGTON
FATAL FIRE VICTIM NAMED
The man who
died in a house fire in Leamington earlier this week has been
named. MORE
[28 JUN 00] SCHOOLGIRL
AIRLIFTED TO HOSPITAL
A schoolgirl was airlifted to
hospital after she was in collision with a car outside Harris
School in Rugby. MORE
[28 JUN 00] ARMED
RAID AT BEDWORTH BUILDING SOCIETY
A robber held up a building
society in Bedworth, and made off with cash after he
threatened a cashier. MORE
[27 JUN 00] YOUNG
YOBS TARGETED AFTER MISSILE ATTACKS
Two
12-year-old boys have been reported for anti-social behaviour
by police following a crackdown on young yobs in the Stoke
Heath area of Coventry.
MORE
[27 JUN 00] MOTORWAY
HIT AND RUN DRIVER HUNTED
A workman
was the victim of a hit-and-run on the M40 late last night
when he was struck by a van and received head injuries.
MORE
[26 JUN 00] MAN
KILLED IN LEAMINGTON HOUSE FIRE
A man has
died following a house fire in Comyn Street, Leamington, early
this morning. MORE
[26 JUN 00] OAP
HAS LEG AMPUTATED AFTER CAR CRASH
An elderly
lady had to have part of her leg amputated after she and a
friend were pinned to a wall by a car that lost control in
Coventry. MORE
[26 JUN 00] STAFF
TIED UP BY LEAMINGTON ROBBER
Two female
staff were tied up by the same robber who struck at different
shops in Leamington town centre.
MORE
[26 JUN 00] ARSONISTS
HIT WOOD END FACTORY
Arsonists
are being hunted after they set a Coventry factory alight,
causing £10,000 damage.
MORE
[26 JUN 00] NEW
CHIEF CONSTABLE LINED UP
The
new chief constable for Warwickshire should be announced early
this week. MORE
[26 JUN 00] THREE
HURT IN COUNTRY ROAD CRASH
Three men
were taken to hospital after a crash on the Fosse Way close to
Chesterton, near Leamington yesterday morning.
MORE
[24 JUN 00] ARSON
ATTACK IN BELL GREEN
Police are appealing for
information following an arson attack in Coventry earlier
today when a garage and car were damaged. MORE
[23 JUN 00] NEW
FOCUS ON COMMUNITY SAFETY
A new
approach to supporting members of the community in Coventry
has been launched by police in the city.
MORE
[23 JUN 00] PENSIONER
DIES AFTER STRATFORD ACCIDENT
A pedestrian
who was seriously hurt when he collided with a car in
Stratford earlier this week has died from his injuries.
MORE
[23 JUN 00] ROBBER
FLEES EMPTY-HANDED IN TWO RAIDS
Police in
Coventry are hunting a man who attempted to rob a bank and a
building society but left empty-handed. MORE
[22 JUN 00] TRADERS
UNITE AGAINST SKYDOME TROUBLEMAKERS
A landlady
of a successful city centre pub might quit because of the
noise and destruction caused by revellers leaving the SkyDome
complex. MORE
[22 JUN 00] STAFF
STRUGGLE WITH MASKED RAIDERS
Two masked
raiders struggled with shop staff at a Bulkington convenience
store before fleeing with money from the till..
MORE
[22 JUN 00] EARLSDON
OFF-LICENCE STANDS FIRM IN ATTACK
The owner of
a Coventry off-licence refused to be intimidated by thugs who
tried to hold up his shop last night.
MORE
[22 JUN 00] THIRD
WOMAN ACCOSTED ON ATHERSTONE ROAD
Police are
linking a series of sexual attacks on women in Atherstone
after a 20-year-old was accosted last night.
MORE
[21 JUN 00] RAPE
VICTIM'S MOVEMENTS TO BE RETRACED
Detectives
hunting the man who raped a Nuneaton teenager have issued this
picture of the attacker and are to reconstruct his victim’s
movements. MORE
[21 JUN 00] COWS
MOOOVE FOR MOTORWAY FREEDOM
A herd of
cows nearly made a great escape onto a Warwickshire motorway
early today when they broke through a six foot high fence.
MORE
[21 JUN 00] LITTLE
CHEF STAFF TIED UP BY RAIDERS
Members of
staff at a restaurant on the edge of Coventry were tied up by
masked raiders who stole thousands of pounds last night.
MORE
[20 JUN 00] COVENTRY
POLICE STEP OUT ON THE CYBERWATCH
Police in
south Coventry are taking to the internet to unite communities
in the fight against crime.
MORE
[20 JUN 00] POLICE
KEEP THEIR CARS SAFE - CAN YOU?
If anyone’s
safe from having their car stolen from a Coventry car park, it’s
the police. MORE
[20 JUN 00] COWS
KILLED IN TRAILER ACCIDENT
Three cows
were killed yesterday when the trailer in which they were
travelling overturned on a Warwickshire road.
MORE
[19 JUN 00] TWO
DEAD AFTER POND ELECTROCUTION ACCIDENT
Two
men died when they were electrocuted in an accident in a
garden pond in Coventry.
MORE
[19 JUN 00] BEWARE
OF HOT WEATHER BURGLARS
People
are being warned to keep watch for opportunist burglars in the
hot weather following a spate of thefts in Coventry and
Warwickshire. MORE
[19 JUN 00] BOGUS
OFFICIAL BURGLES COVENTRY PENSIONER
A
man posing as a water board official stole £200 from a
93-year-old woman when he visited her Coventry home.
MORE
[19 JUN 00] MAN
HURT IN LEAMINGTON BRIDGE FALL
A
27-year-old man walked home with a broken leg after falling
off a bridge in Leamington yesterday. MORE
[19 JUN 00] POLICE
HUNT COVENTRY HAMMER ATTACKER
A
masked man armed with a claw hammer stole £200 from a
Coventry off-licence in a raid at the weekend.
MORE
[19 JUN 00] LEAMINGTON
BOY CAUGHT SHOOTING AT CAMERA
An
eight-year-old boy was caught shooting pellets at a CCTV
camera in Leamington. MORE
[19 JUN 00] BRICK
THROWN AT CAR IN BEDWORTH
A
Nuneaton woman narrowly escaped injury when a brick was thrown
at her car as she drove down a Bedworth street
yesterday.
MORE
[17 JUN 00] MAN
DIES IN CITY CENTRE PLUNGE
A man died in
Coventry on Saturday after falling from the eighth storey of
block of flats in the city centre. MORE
[16 JUN 00] PHONE
STOLEN IN COVENTRY BLADE THREAT
A
16-year-old Bedworth lad had his mobile phone stolen in
Coventry city centre yesterday when he was threatened with a
knife blade. MORE
[16 JUN 00] BIKERS
GATHER TO MOURN FOUNDER'S DEATH
More
than 1,000 British Hell’s Angels have paid their respects to
the founder of their group, who helped organise the annual
Bulldog Bash near Stratford.
MORE
[16 JUN 00] TRAINERS
ROBBED BY BROADGATE GANG
A
pair of trainers were stolen from a man in Coventry city
centre yesterday after he was punched by a gang of
youths. MORE
[14 JUN 00] EXPERTS
BROUGHT IN TO CRACK RAPE CASE
Police
hunting the Nuneaton sex attacker who raped an 18-year-old at
knifepoint last week have brought in a “Cracker” expert to
profile the offender. MORE
[14 JUN 00] DRIVER
HUNTED AFTER ROAD RAGE IN RUGBY
A
car driver involved in a crash in Rugby was knocked across the
bonnet of another vehicle in a road rage incident.
MORE
[14 JUN 00] COVENTRY
BANKS HIT IN SUCCESSION
Police
are investigating the possibility that two raids at Coventry
branches of the HSBC bank yesterday are linked. MORE
[14 JUN 00] STUDENTS
TOG UP FOR DISASTER PROTECTION
Protective
clothing for the future will be unveiled by Coventry
University at their design show later this week. MORE
[13 JUN 00] AIRCRAFT
CRASH DRAMA IN LEAMINGTON HASTINGS
A pilot and
his passenger avoided injury yesterday when the light aircraft
they were flying crashed in a Warwickshire field.
MORE
[13 JUN 00] RUGBY
MAN FOUND STABBED IN HOUSE
A Rugby
woman was helping police with their enquiries today after a
man was found stabbed in a house in the town. MORE
[13 JUN 00] COVENTRY
TEENAGER FLEES SEX ATTACKER
A
16-year-old was indecently assaulted as she tried to escape a
man who was attempting to abduct her in a Coventry street.
MORE
[12 JUN 00] POLICE
FIND KNIFE IN NUNEATON RAPIST HUNT
Forty police
officers and support staff have been called in to hunt for the
man who raped a Nuneaton teenager at knifepoint on Friday.
MORE
[12 JUN 00] COVENTRY
OAP CONNED BY BOGUS OFFICIAL
A bogus
official pretending to be a council worker burgled a Coventry
pensioner’s home and stole more than £170. MORE
[10 JUN 00] TEENAGER
RAPED IN NUNEATON
A Nuneaton teenager was raped
at knifepoint as she walked her dog near a railway line.
MORE
[10 JUN 00] ARMED
RAID ON NUNEATON SUPERMARKET
Two masked robbers held up a
Nuneaton supermarket with guns yesterday. MORE
[10 JUN 00] ARMED
RAID ON WARWICK LONDIS STORE
A late-night store in Warwick
was robbed by a raider with a gun yesterday. MORE
[10 JUN 00] YOUNG
BOY ROBBED IN BARRAS GREEN
An eight-year-old boy was
thrown from his bike and sat on by a youth who robbed him of
his money. MORE
[10 JUN 00] MOTORCYCLIST
INJURED IN LIGHTHORNE CRASH
A motorcyclist is in hospital
with serious injuries after he was involved in a collision
with a car near Warwick yesterday. MORE
[09 JUN 00] TILE
HILL BOBBIES TO OFFER CRIME ADVICE
Police based
in the new Tile Hill sector house in Coventry will be knocking
on doors this weekend to get to know members of the community.
MORE
[09 JUN 00] MAN
FLASHES AT TEENAGE GIRLS
Police are
hunting a flasher who exposed himself to a group of students
at a north Warwickshire school yesterday. MORE
[09 JUN 00] GIRL
GRABBED BY YOUTH NEAR ATHERSTONE
An
18-year-old girl was grabbed by a pervert in a village near
Atherstone yesterday. MORE
[08 JUN 00] NEW
POLICE BASE OPENS IN TILE HILL
The fight
against crime in Coventry has received a boost with the
opening of a new police base in the city. MORE
[07 JUN 00] RAGING
BULL CHEATS DEATH IN NUNEATON ESCAPE
A
bull decided to take its life into its own hooves yesterday
when it escaped from a Nuneaton abattoir. MORE
[06 JUN 00] POLICE
STRUGGLING FOLLOWING EARLSDON RAID
Police
have admitted that they are struggling to cope with the flood
of armed robberies in Coventry after a building society was
hit in Earlsdon yesterday. MORE
[06 JUN 00] WARWICK
CRACKDOWN ON £4b CROOKS
Law
enforcers from around the country will be putting their heads
together in Warwick this week to discuss ways of cracking a
£4 billion counterfeiting problem. MORE
[06 JUN 00] TROUBLE-MAKERS
TOLD TO STAY AWAY
Troublemakers
who prey upon a Hillfields estate in Coventry are to be told
to keep away from the area. MORE
[06 JUN 00] TRADERS
URGED TO UNITE FOR CCTV
Traders in
the Stoke area of Coventry are being urged to join a major
anti-crime crusade and to add support to a campaign for CCTV
cameras. MORE
[06 JUN 00] COUNCIL-FUNDED
POLICE TAKE TO THE STREETS
Two new
police officers dedicated to Wood End in Coventry have started
walking the beat following a unique partnership with the
council. MORE
[05 JUN 00] ARMED
RAIDERS ATTACK COVENTRY PUB
Masked
raiders armed with sawn-off shot guns burst into a Coventry
pub early today and stole thousands of pounds. MORE
[05 JUN 00] £10,000
ARSON AT EXHALL FACTORY
Thousands
of pounds of damage was caused to an Exhall factory at the
weekend after arsonists set fire to goods stored outside the
building. MORE
[05 JUN 00] BELGRADE
LOO GOES UP IN SMOKE
An
arsonist caused £2,000 of damage to the Belgrade Theatre in
Coventry when they set a toilet roll on fire. MORE
[05 JUN 00] PIZZA
MAN HAS VAN STOLEN IN KERESLEY
[05 JUN 00] COVENTRY
DOG WALKER HIT BY BRICK
[05 JUN 00] HORSE
RESCUED FROM RIVER
[04 JUN 00] BURGLARY
IN STOKE ALDERMOOR
[03 JUN 00] MAN
SHOT IN BELL GREEN
[02 JUN 00] POLICE
MAKE MAGNETIC IMPACT ON CRIME
[02 JUN 00] POLICE
HUNT NUNEATON ARSONISTS
[01 JUN 00] CASINO
HIT BY ARMED RAIDERS AGAIN
[01 JUN 00] CRIMINAL
KIDS TO FACE UP TO THEIR SINS
[01 JUN 00] CUSTOMS
LAND FIDDLERS IN £1.7m VAT OF TROUBLE
[01 JUN 00] OAP'S
CAR RAMMED AS HE TRIES TO FOIL ROBBER
[01 JUN 00] WARNING
AFTER WARWICK PENSIONER CONNED
[01 JUN 00] WHEELCHAIR
USER THREATENED WITH KNIFE
|
