A 60-year-old man from Tewkesbury has been sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a woman multiple times. Vernon Steele, who is from the Northway area, had previously denied four counts of rape, but following a trial at Gloucester Crown Court, a jury...
An appeal is launched after a poppy box was stolen from a shop on Tuesday. In a post on Newent Noticeboard, Denise said: “This nice person decided to come into Spar this morning and helped himself to the poppy box. “To say I’m disappointed by this act when it goes...
Police are appealing for information after an ATM machine was broken into on Friday morning (30 May). Officers were called to Broad Street in Newent at around 1.40am with a report that unknown offenders had used power tools to gain entry to the inside of the ATM...
A woman has been convicted of the manslaughter of her four-month-old daughter after violently shaking her on more than one occasion. Melissa Wilband, 28, had denied killing Lexi Wilband, but it took jurors just over 10 and a half hours to find her guilty...
