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• Witness appeal after boy attacked in Weymouth

  By  Margery_H at 12:13 on 03/09/10

  

  Police in Weymouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a robbery in the Wyke Regis area of the town which left a teenage boy with injuries. The incident, in which three men attacked a 16-year-old Weymouth boy before stealing a quantity of cash, happened in Verne Road, near to The Bath Store, between 12am and 12.30am on Saturday, 28 August 2010. The victim sustained grazes and bruising as a...

• Trial for theft case

  By  Weymouth-People at 11:00 on 02/09/10

  

  A HENSTRIDGE man has denied stealing furniture when he was a tenant of a semi-detached house in Sturminster Newton. Terry Andrew Nixon, 43, of The Cross, denied stealing items of furniture and other household goods, valued in all at £505, between April 20 and May 11 this year. A trial has been fixed for January 11 at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court.

• Courts closure plans criticised

  By  Weymouth-People at 11:00 on 02/09/10

  

  SUGGESTIONS that justice for North Dorset can be served adequately in Weymouth have been criticised at town, district and county council level. Closure of Blandford court is one of the Government’s proposed cost-saving measures but Weymouth as an alternative has been described as “simply not tenable” in a report by Dorset County Council’s director for corporate resources, Elaine Taylor. The council’s...

• Assault is denied

  By  Weymouth-People at 11:00 on 02/09/10

  

  A SHAFTESBURY man has denied threatening to burn down a building and damage machinery. At Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, George Andrew Cooper, 44, of Calves Lane, denied assaulting Andrew Douglas Mills and causing criminal damage at Todber on May 26. The allegations will now go to a trial at the court on January 26. Cooper is on bail until then with a condition that he has no contact with Andrew or Roger Mills.

• Police appeal for help after alleged assault on woman in Weymouth

  By  Margery_H at 16:33 on 25/08/10

  

  Police in Weymouth are appealing for help from the public following an alleged domestic assault in the town – with one man being arrested. The incident, in which a man allegedly grabbed hold of a 48-year-old Weymouth woman, happened along Newstead Road, near the Asda supermarket, at around 9.55am on Saturday, 14 August 2010. The woman was uninjured. Investigations Officer Sue Graham, of Weymouth police, said:...

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