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  • Pensioners stage council tax protest

    Around 100 banner waving pensioners today protested against the council tax ahead of a conference to be attended by Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford. The Minister is to address delegates from across the West Country at the debate at County Hall

  • Man charged with wife's murder

    A man appeared in court today charged with murdering his elderly wife. Alan Wickenden, 66, appeared before Exeter Magistrates Court charged with the murder of 69-year-old Janet Wickenden. Wickenden, of Down St Mary near Crediton in Devon, was remanded

  • Girl, 12, escapes abduction bid

    A 12-year-old girl was abducted from a busy shopping centre in Gloucester but managed to escape her attacker, police have said. Gloucestershire Police said the girl was approached at about 4pm on Thursday, November 6, as she walked through the Kings Walk

  • Alicia suspect held for another 36 hours

    Police were today given permission to question a 39-year-old man about the disappearance of 18-year-old college student Alicia Eborne for a further 36 hours. Magistrates granted police the custody extension for the unnamed man, believed to be a bus driver

  • Pensioners stage council tax protest

    Around 100 banner waving pensioners today protested against the council tax ahead of a conference to be attended by Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford. The Minister is to address delegates from across the West Country at the debate at County Hall

  • Pensioners stage council tax protest

    Around 100 banner waving pensioners today protested against the council tax ahead of a conference to be attended by Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford. The Minister is to address delegates from across the West Country at the debate at County Hall

  • Cash boost safeguards jobs

    A massive £4 million cash injection, which may lead to hundreds of jobs, has boosted Bideford's economy. The huge boost means that much needed work to the extension of Caddesdown Industrial Park can now go ahead. The improvements means around 200 jobs

  • Man charged with wife's murder

    A man appeared in court today charged with murdering his elderly wife. Alan Wickenden, 66, appeared before Exeter Magistrates Court charged with the murder of 69-year-old Janet Wickenden. Wickenden, of Down St Mary near Crediton in Devon, was remanded

  • Police hope for breakthrough in Bushell murder

    Police trying to solve the knife murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl today issued a new appeal for information about a prime suspect - six years to the day after the killing. Kate Bushell's throat was cut as she walked a neighbour's dog a short distance

  • Pensioners stage council tax protest

    Around 100 banner waving pensioners today protested against the council tax ahead of a conference to be attended by Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford. The Minister is to address delegates from across the West Country at the debate at County Hall

  • Councillor charged with downloading child porn

    A city councillor who allegedly failed to answer police bail in a vote rigging inquiry today appeared in court charged with downloading indecent photographs of children. John Astley, a Bristol City councillor, was escorted back to Britain from Holland

  • Man convicted of murdering estranged wife

    A man has been found guilty of killing his estranged college worker wife in Swindon. Glyn Razzell, 44, was sentenced to life for the murder of mother-of-four Linda Razzell, who disappeared on her way to work at Swindon College in Wiltshire last year.

  • Pensioners stage council tax protest

    Around 100 banner waving pensioners today protested against the council tax ahead of a conference to be attended by Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford. The Minister is to address delegates from across the West Country at the debate at County Hall