AN awareness campaign has been launched to encourage people to protect their personal information.The 'Not With My Name' campaign, run by Derbyshire Police, is aimed at stamping out identity crime.Police believe that one in four adults in the UK – more than 12 million people – has fallen victim to identity fraud, losing on average £1,200 each.Total losses to the UK adult population are estimated to be £3.3 billion.In the first quarter of 2015 there was a 27 per cent...
Reported by Burton Mail 46 minutes ago.
FIREFIGHTERS and police were called after a vehicle flipped onto its roof in the early hours. The fire log does not say if it is a car or something else, but apparently a vehicle hit a wall on Whitstone Hill at 3.25am. No one was trapped when firefighters from Shepton Mallet and Yeovil fire stations arrived, and the police closed the road to recover the vehicle.
Reported by Shepton Mallet Journal 20 minutes ago.
An ambulance, minibus and car were on fire in Derbyshire last night. Firefighters were called to the incident in Park Road, Chesterfield at 9.30pm. A spokesman for Derbyshire Fire and Rescue said the fire happened at the back of a commercial property and that the service informed police, although the cause is not known. * Read more of today's top news stories here. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Looking for a job? * Check out our jobs channel.
Reported by Derby Telegraph 16 minutes ago.
AN investigation has been launched by police after several Muslim graves were vandalised at a cemetery in Bulwell.At least 10 graves in High Cemetery, Low Wood Road, have been damaged – with reports of name plaques and decorative lights being ruined.It is believed the attack happened either late on Saturday evening or during the early hours of Sunday morning.Police say while damage has been caused to some non-Muslim graves, the focus of the activity is focused on the Muslim section.Chief...
Reported by Nottingham Post 15 minutes ago.
Teams of community beat officers are to be scrapped in dozens of areas as the devastating cuts to the police budget hit frontline services.
Reported by Belfast Telegraph 6 minutes ago.
Police are still hunting the driver of a car involved in an incident which left a 20-year-old man in hospital.The man was struck by a car on Melbourne Road, Aspley, at just after midnight on Sunday.He remains in a stable condition in hospital.Police arrested a 36-year-old woman on suspicion of affray a short time later and she was questioned and bailed pending further inquiries.But police are still looking for the male driver of the car and are asking witnesses for information.Police have also...
Reported by Nottingham Post 42 minutes ago.
Parking wardens will soon be handing out fines for parking breaches across North Somerset – rather than police officers.North Somerset Council has announced it intends to take over control of on-street parking enforcement across the district.Until now, North Somerset has been the only council in the former Avon area where police still have the job of prosecuting parking violations. But police officers need to balance parking enforcement with other areas of policing – and parking has...
Reported by Bristol Post 2 hours ago.
A judge said it was "a miracle" that a drunken driver did not kill his family in a crash after a high speed police chase. Frantisek Mikula, 32, was almost three times the drink drive limit, with his wife and four children in his vehicle. He drove at up to 93 mph in residential streets in the Belgrave and Northfields areas, ignoring two red lights, failing to give way at junctions and going the wrong way up a one-way street. After crashing his Ford...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 46 minutes ago.
Dorset Police and the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) are supporting a new helpline which gives young people another way of reporting Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE).The dedicated freephone helpline called 'Say Something' will provide assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, will be managed and operated by the charity Missing People. The helpline which allows young people to make reports and discuss concerns about themselves or friends has been funded by The...
Reported by Blackmore Vale 35 minutes ago.
A MAN who allegedly went to his mother's address three times in the same day while banned from going there has been ordered to stand trial. Trevor Gerald Roles was made the subject of a restraining order imposed in June 2014 which prohibited him from initiating contact with his mother Pamela Langdon or from entering Valley Close in Wells where she lives. The 55-year-old, of Ash grove, Bristol, was brought before Somerset Magistrates in custody after being arrested by police who found him outside...
Reported by Wells Journal 38 minutes ago.
A SERIAL fraudster , who became the first person in the UK to be banned from changing his name after he swindled almost £300,000, has admitted two more offences in Derbyshire. John Deeds, who now goes by the name of Paul Richards, broke the terms of a serious crime prevention order which banned him from opening bank accounts without telling a specialist police fraud team. While living in Derbyshire between June and December 2013, he opened an account with the Coventry Building Society...
Reported by Derby Telegraph 35 minutes ago.