• Marlborough Area Burglary in Ogbourne St.George. Police Appeal for information

  By kaylacey at 13:40 on 03/02/12

  

  A high value burglary took place in Ogbourne St.George near Marlborough on Tuesday, 31 January 2012.   The Police are appealing for witnesses and information. Between approximately 0001 hours on Thursday 26th January 2012 and 1:30 p.m on Monday 30th January 2012 a detached property in the village was broken into. The property had been searched and items of jewellery were taken including a man's silver and gold Gucci...

• Chaplin's Newsagents in Chiseldon near Marlborough - two men charged.

  By kaylacey at 12:21 on 03/02/12

  

  Two men aged 22 from London were arrested at the end of January for robbery and firearms offences in connection with the robbery at Chaplin's newsagents in Chiseldon on Monday 16th January 2012. At approximately 6.30am, two males entered the shop and threatened the shop assistant with an handgun. They asked for access to the safe but were told that the shop did not possess one.

• Marlborough schoolteacher convicted of dangerous driving 18 January 2012

  By kaylacey at 23:30 on 18/01/12

  

  A classics teacher at St. John's School, Marlborough has been jailed for 20 months and banned for driving for three years for causing the death of Lee Roberts, 35,  by dangerous driving in October 2010. Eleanor Brown, 27, was overtaking in her Skoda when she collided with a Scooter driven by Mr.Roberts at Canning's Cross near Devizes.  Mr. Roberts lived at Pewey and was a father-of-two. Ms Brown had a previous conviction for...

• CHISELDON NEWSAGENTS NEAR MARLBOROUGH ROBBED

  By kaylacey at 00:04 on 18/01/12

  

  Wiltshire Police are appealing for witnesses and information to the robbery at gunpoint of  Chiseldon newsagent Chaplin's on Monday 16th January at approx. 6.30 a.m. by two white men in their 20s armed with a handgun.  They stole cigarettes and money.. Anyone with information should telephone 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 where information may be left anonymously if preferred.

• Watch out! Heating Oil thieves about...

  By kaylacey at 23:10 on 21/12/11

  

  There have been reports of suspicious activity at isolated rural homes across the region in the past couple of weeks. Sheds etc., have been  targeted but the major problem would seem to be people looking for heating oil tanks and heating oil has been reported stolen. Suspicious activity and theft has been noticed in the Villages of Wanborough and Aldbourne. Other villages in Wiltshire, especially in the Salisbury area have been...

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