Drop in crime in South Cerney (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)
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Drop in crime in South Cerney
9:00am Monday 28th May 2012 in News By Ian Craig
CRIME in South Cerney dropped by almost 10 per cent in the last year.
At the annual village meeting this month it was reported that incidents of violent crime decreased from 24 in the period from May 2010 to the end of April 2011, to 16 in the following 12 months.
Incidents of burglary decreased from 21 to 13 in the same period, including only three house burglaries, and fraud decreased from three incidents to one, while criminal damage dropped from 19 to 14.
Although incidents of theft increased from 36 incidents in May 2010-2011 to 43 in the same period from May 2011-2012, local policing officer PC Sarah Bradley said this was because of an uncommon rise in thefts of fishing equipment while owners slept.
However, she added this has since fallen back down to normal levels following a police crackdown.
An increase in thefts from vehicles overnight has also contributed to this rise.
South Cerney Parish Council chairman Cllr Mike Stuart praised PC Bradley’s efforts to drive down crime in the village.
“I think we’ve got a very good copper in South Cerney,” he said. “She is a lady who will not tolerate nonsense.”
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Alvin Sepert
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10:13am Fri 1 Jun 12
Al Sepert
Lib dems win in Fosseridge By Al Sepert.
Lib Dems win in Fosseridge
The headline had been writ
maybe a bit too hastily
they should have waited a bit
Lib Dems win in Fosseridge
The copy was perfection.
Ready to go in the Standard
Front page or gossip section
Lib Dems win in Fosseridge
Lynden Stowe's Tory's humbled
We can't afford to park our cars
in Ciren, voters grumbled.
"The Tories they are out of step
with the needs of Fosseridge ward
For what they want is somewhere cheap
In Ciren to park their cars.
"Its time to end the Cash Cow
Ciren carparks have become,"
And this battle cry was adopted as
the Lib Dems campaign slo-gan.
For voters at Todenham, Longborough
and Bourton on the Hill.
they want is to park their cars
in Ciren without a huge bill.
In Sezincote and Donnington
And Bourton the hill
The whole place was buzzing
about the lake 31 infill.
Cullimore and Watermark
In the waterpark
And the harsh treatment of Esmond
Infuenced where they stuck their mark
So when you read your paper
please be aware that.
Lib Dems win in Fosseridge
is a trifle thin on facts
For though the Lib Dems beat the Indy
by some seventy votes
Julian Beale Conservative
Was the winning bloke
And not by small margin,
not quite by a landslide
but over double the votes
the Lib Dem got
Three hundred and seventy nine.
Conservative 379
Libral Democrat 168
Inependant 98
Conservative hold.
Alvin Sepert
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10:16am Fri 1 Jun 12
Crispin Mount says...
9:50pm Mon 28 May 12