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Yeovil teen charged with possession with intent to supply Class A...
A teenager has been charged with possession with intent to supply drugs.Jakey Ross, 19, from Sedgemoor Close, Yeovil, was arrested yesterday afternoon (September 13).Following his arrest by Avon and...
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Weymouth guesthouse couple in court charged with running a...
A couple have appeared in court charged with running a brothel for prostitution at an address in Yeovil last year.Dean and Maya Rogers, who both run the Maiden Rest bed and breakfast on The Esplanade...
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Swansea City and Chelsea fans could help police investigating...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman with connections to the Dorset area. Alison Jane Farr-Davies, 42, was found dead in Swansea in Wales on Tuesday (September 13) at around...
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Drug deaths in Somerset: 50 users die in a two-year period -...
There were 50 recorded drug deaths in Somerset between 2013 and 2015 according to figures just released.The number places Somerset, which has a population of 531,000, joint 32nd among 83 metropolitan...
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Co-op burglary at West End, Street, raiders force open shutters...
Alcohol and cigarettes were taken after burglars raided a Street shop in the early hours of this morning.Up to four men are thought to have been involved in the burglary at Co-op, West End, today...
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Glastonbury High Street assault: Woman arrested for attempted...
A 44-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was thought to have been seriously assaulted with a weapon.The pavement around St John's Church was cordoned off...
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Child abuse victims face bumping into abusers in Somerset courts,...
The terrifying prospect of a child abuse victims bumping into their abusers in court is a stark reality for children in Somerset.The NSPCC has revealed that victims face a postcode lottery when getting...
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Chard veteran with PTSD gets suspended jail term for telling...
A veteran told a police call handler he was "armed to high heavens" and was threatening to kill his partner unless an armed response unit was sent to his address.Police took a call from a terrified...
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Calor gas used in alleged attempt to poison three people in a...
A Yeovil man has been charged with attempting to poison three people, including a baby, by feeding gas through a pipe into a bathroom Daniel Lee Guthrie, 33, of Swallowcliffe Gardens, appeared in the...
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Thieves force way into Chard Rugby Club and steal TV in early...
Thieves forced their way into a Somerset rugby club and stole a TV in the club's second burglary of the week.Chard Rugby Club fell victim to the theft in the early hours of September 16 after a door...
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Glastonbury mayor and police team up to reduce antisocial...
The Mayor of Glastonbury is urging the police to up their presence in the town centre to reduce antisocial behaviour among street drinkers.Residents and civic leaders have raised concerns over the last...
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Glastonbury vicar urges police and council to crack down on...
A Glastonbury vicar who says disorder is at its worst level for eight years is calling on authorities to ban alcohol from his church yard.The Rev David MacGeoch, the vicar at St John's Church, has said...
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Assault victim from Gillingham charged with possession of...
The victim of an assault in Wincanton ended up in court himself after police discovered cannabis in his van.Officers were called following a reported assault and when they arrived found Matthew Hoppe...
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Crewkerne pensioner John Davis 'vehemently denies' sexually...
A Crewkerne pensioner has "vehemently denied" two charges of sexually assaulting a young girl.John Anthony Davis, 68, of Barn Crescent, was charged with intentionally touching a girl aged 14 in a...
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Car crashed on its side in Fairmead Road Yeovil: driver over...
A Yeovil man who crashed his car on the way to an early morning breakfast was found by police nearly double the drink drive limit.Alexander Griffith Evans had been drinking the night before and when...
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Alison Baird of Wells electronically tagged for assaulting...
A woman who struck the bar manager of a Shepton Mallet pub in the face after a family wedding got out of control has been sentenced to a community order by the courts.Alison Jane Baird carried out the...
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CCTV released after elderly man threatened in attempted robbery...
CCTV shows a hooded man who police believe threatened and tried to rob a man aged in his 80s as he sat in his car in a Tesco car park in Weston-super-Mare.A brave member of the public came to the...
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Police has 'lost touch with Sherborne public', says retired...
A retired Sherborne police detective has chastised the current force following a "daylight robbery" on Cheap Street earlier this month. The Abbey Pharmacy was targeted by three thieves on September 1,...
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Somerset sees sharp rise in 'making off without payment' crimes
The number of people running off without paying for stuff in Somerset has risen by more than half since last year.An analysis of open crime data by Somerset Live has revealed an alarming rise in...
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Dark Somerset: Constance Kent and the Road Hill House murder...
It was the case that took the Victorian world by storm and inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to pen murder mysteries and even after more than 150 the grisly murder of a three-year-old boy at a house in Rode...
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