[22 DEC 00] GRANDMOTHER PUNCHED AND
ROBBED OF PENSION
A Coventry grandmother
was punched in the face as a robber stole her Christmas
pension money. MORE
[22 DEC 00] CITY YOUTH HUNTED AFTER
STRING OF ROBBERIES
A youth with a dog is
being hunted in Coventry in connection with three vicious
street robberies all carried out in the same road.
MORE
[21 DEC 00] CORDON THROWN AROUND
COVENTRY MACHETE MAN
Police cordoned off an
area of Coventry early today after a machete-wielding man
threatened officers and barricaded himself in his house with
his partner and young child. MORE
[21 DEC 00] WOMAN'S TOOTH BROKEN IN
STREET ATTACK
A masked robber pushed
a woman to the ground as he took more than £300 from her in a
street struggle in Coventry. MORE
[21 DEC 00] SHEEP WORRIED AS DOG
SAVAGES EWES
An investigation is
under way to trace a dog responsible for savaging sheep on a
farm. MORE
[20 DEC 00] PENSIONER ATTACKED IN HER
OWN HOME
An 86-year-old
Coventry woman was attacked in her home as she grappled with
two men who had bluffed their way in. MORE
[20 DEC 00] CHIPS ARE DOWN FOR COVENTRY
KEBAB THIEVES
Police are appealing
for people to be on the look-out for dodgy kebabs following a
bizarre raid on a Coventry chippy. MORE
[20 DEC 00] ARMED RAIDER THREATENS POST
OFFICE
A man armed with a
sawn-off double-barrelled shot gun pointed it at a postmaster
and his wife as he tried to hold up a post office
yesterday. MORE
[20 DEC 00] LANDLORD FINED FOR NOISY
PUB
A pub landlord must
pay more than £2,500 after being convicted of pestering
residents with persistently loud music.
MORE
[19 DEC 00] ROCKET LAUNCHER SEIZED AT
COVENTRY AIRPORT
Customs officers at Coventry Airport
were amazed when they found a rocket launcher that had been
posted from America. MORE
[19 DEC 00] BRAVE ASSISTANT FOILS
ROBBERS
Three offenders grappled with a shop
assistant at a Coventry supermarket as they tried to steal her
till yesterday. MORE
[19 DEC 00] SHOPPERS ASKED FOR THUMBS
UP TO FRAUD FIGHT
Shoppers in Coventry are to be asked to
give their thumbprints when they buy goods by credit card or
cheque to try and cut fraud.
MORE
[19 DEC 00] EVEN FATHER CHRISTMAS CAN
BE BREATHALYSED
A tough warning has
been sent out by road safety officers to people considering
drinking and driving over Christmas.
MORE
[18 DEC 00] TWO KILLED IN ROAD
ACCIDENTS
Two men in their 90s
were killed at the weekend when they hit by cars in separate
accidents.
MORE
[18 DEC 00] ARMED ROBBERS ATTACK
COVENTRY PUB
Staff at a Coventry
pub were confronted by robbers armed with a gun and two knives
earlier today.
MORE
[18 DEC 00] TAXI DRIVER SUFFERS RACIST
ATTACK
A taxi driver was
racially abused and head-butted by a violent passenger who
refused to pay his fare.
MORE
[18 DEC 00] MAN RESCUED AS FLAT TORCHED
BY ARSONISTS
A 62-year-old man had
to be rescued by firefighters when he was overcome by fumes
after a flat was set alight by arsonists yesterday.
MORE
[15 DEC 00] OFFICER KILLED BY ARMED
ROBBER REMEMBERED
A Coventry policeman
who was murdered when he was shot at point-blank range by a
robber with a sawn-off shotgun is to be remembered next
week.
MORE
[15 DEC 00] POLICE
TO PATROL A&E DEPARTMENT
Police are to be
stationed in an A& E Unit at a hospital this weekend to
prevent staff being attacked and to encourage victims of
violence to report their crimes. MORE
[15 DEC 00] GUNS FOUND IN COVENTRY
HOUSE
A man was helping
police with their enquiries today after two guns were found at
a house in Coventry.
MORE
[14 DEC 00] PEDESTRIAN AGED 20 DIES
FROM CRASH INJURIES
A Coventry woman who
was hit by a car as she crossed the road has died from her
injuries.
MORE
[14 DEC 00] MOTORIST BOUNCES OFF BONNET
AS CAR IS STOLEN
A motorist was hurled
across his bonnet as he tried to stop a thief stealing his car
last night.
MORE
[14 DEC 00] FINGERS
WAGGED AT PARENTS OF TRUANTS
Nearly 50 children
were stopped by police and social workers during a clampdown
on truancy, and parents were often to blame for the youngsters
being out of school. MORE
[13 DEC 00] ARMED ROBBERS STRIKE AT
CLUB
A steward and a barman
were forced into a cellar by armed robbers who struck at a
club last night.
MORE
[13 DEC 00] WARNING AS PILLS THAT COULD
KILL ARE STOLEN
Hundreds of
potentially lethal tablets are at risk from falling into the
hands of young children after they were stolen from a house
yesterday.
MORE
[12 DEC 00] MOTORIST KILLED AFTER
LOSING CONTROL OF CAR
A motorist died
yesterday after he suddenly lost control of his car while
driving down a busy dual carriageway.
MORE
[12 DEC 00] MAN STABBED IN STOMACH IN
STREET ATTACK
A Coventry man is in a
serious condition in hospital after he was stabbed in a city
street yesterday.
MORE
[12 DEC 00] KNIFE THREATS MADE AT CITY
STORE
A man threatened a
shop assistant in a Coventry department store with a knife
before stealing money from the till.
MORE
[12 DEC 00] FRAUD TRICKSTER JAILED FOR
£40,000 SCAM
A Coventry benefit fraudster has been
sent to prison after admitting swindling almost £40,000 in
false claims. MORE
[12 DEC 00] LORRY DRIVER SET ON BY
ATTACKERS
Two robbers tried to
force a man to hand over the keys to his lorry in Coventry
yesterday, and attacked him when he refused.
MORE
[11 DEC 00] FOOTBALL FANS KILLED IN
MOTORWAY TRAGEDY
Nuneaton Borough's FA
Cup run ended in tragedy at the weekend when three fans
returning from the game were killed in a motorway
accident.
MORE
[11 DEC 00] CYCLIST DIES IN ROAD CRASH
A woman was killed
when she collided with a car as she cycled with a group of
friends yesterday.
MORE
[11 DEC 00] 11-YEAR-OLD ROBBED OF SHOES
AT GUN POINT
A young boy was robbed
of money and his trainers at gun-point in Coventry city centre
yesterday.
MORE
[11 DEC 00] NAKED DRIVER EXPOSES
HIMSELF TO HORSE RIDER
A man followed a woman
riding a horse down a road in his car and then got out to
expose himself to her.
MORE
[08 DEC 00] COVENTRY PETROL THIEVES
PUMPED DRY
A flood of drive-off
thefts from a Coventry petrol station has been reduced to a
trickle after police moved onto the forecourt.
MORE
[07 DEC 00] WOMAN KILLED IN CAR
COLLISION
A 35-year-old woman
was killed yesterday after her car collided with another
vehicle.
MORE
[07 DEC 00] SECURITY GUARD STABBED IN
TUSSLE
A security guard was
slashed in the face as he struggled with an alleged shoplifter
in a street yesterday.
MORE
[07 DEC 00] BOY AGED TEN ATTACKED BY
MEN
Police are still
hunting for two men who attacked a ten-year-old Coventry boy,
punching and robbing him in a city street.
MORE
[06 DEC 00] SHOT FIRED IN PUB CAR PARK
Police are appealing
for witnesses after a gun was fired at a man in a Coventry pub
car park.
MORE
[06 DEC 00] RAMPANT MOB MARAUDES
THROUGH CITY CENTRE
A mob rampaged through
Coventry city centre, punching and hitting people and damaging
property in a series of unprovoked attacks.
MORE
[06 DEC 00] KNIFEMAN HOLDS UP CITY
STORE
A man armed with a
knife forced a cashier at a Coventry store to hand over money
from the till.
MORE
[06 DEC 00] MYSTERY AS WHITE VAN MAN
FOUND INJURED
Detectives are trying
to solve the mystery of man found in his van on a country road
with head injuries.
MORE
[05 DEC 00] FORMER CITY PLAYER CLEARED
OF CHILD SEX ABUSE
Former Coventry City
player and Southampton manager David Jones has been cleared of
indecent abuse of children.
MORE
[05 DEC 00] BOYS
AGED TEN IN ALLEGED BAG SNATCHING SPREE
Two ten-year-old boys
were arrested yesterday after pensioners were hurt by thieves
trying to grab their handbags. MORE
[05 DEC 00] BUNGLING
ROBBER STRIKES FOUR TIMES
A bungling robber
tried to hold up four banks and post offices before finally
getting some money, but was arrested minutes later.
MORE
[05 DEC 00] NO ESCAPE FOR THE TERRIBLE
TWENTY
The worst shoplifters in Rugby, known as
the 'Terrible Twenty', are facing a torrid time if they
continue to pilfer because of a new crackdown in the town.
MORE
[04 DEC 00] SAWN-OFF
SHOTGUNS BRANDISHED IN CLUB RAID
Masked robbers
threatened a Coventry rugby club stewardess with sawn-off
shotgun before raiding the till and safe. MORE
[04 DEC 00] GUN
POINTED IN OFF LICENCE RAID
A man threatened a
shop assistant with a gun in a Rugby off licence before making
off with the contents of the till. MORE
[04 DEC 00] GANG
STRIPS TEENAGER OF JEWELLERY
An 18-year-old had
£1,000 of jewellery stolen from him when he was set upon in
the street in Coventry yesterday. MORE
[04 DEC 00] PC
PLOD BECOMES PC PEDAL
Police in Coventry are
resorting to pedal power as a quick and quiet way of catching
crooks. MORE
[04 DEC 00] GAs
MAIN RUPTURED AS CAR HITS HOUSE
Roads had to be sealed
off while emergency repairs were carried out after a car
crashed into a gas main on the side of a house. MORE
[01 DEC 00] BOY
HELD AT KNIFEPOINT BY BIKE ROBBERS
A boy had his bicycle
robbed from him at knifepoint after it was grabbed as he rode
down a Coventry street. MORE
[01 DEC 00] FLASHER
GRABS WOMAN AND EXPOSES HIMSELF
Police are hunting for
a flasher who followed a woman in Warwick, grabbed her, and
indecently exposed himself.. MORE
[01 DEC 00] FESTIVE
TRAP SET FOR CITY BURGLARS
Houses left empty over
the Christmas period in Coventry are being fitted with
surveillance equipment to try and snare burglars.
MORE
[30 NOV 00] WOMAN's
LEGS BROKEN IN CITY CRASH
A 20-year-old woman
suffered two broken legs and serious head injuries when she
was hit by a car in a busy Coventry street yesterday.
MORE
[30 NOV 00] POLICE
GET PROTECTIVE VESTS TO CUT STABBINGS
Police in Coventry are
to be issued with protective vests as a matter of course after
almost 1,000 officers were assaulted with knives or other
weapons. MORE
[29 NOV 00] PENSIONER
KILLED IN COVENTRY RUSH HOUR
A pensioner was killed
in the rush hour in Coventry as he tried to cross a busy road
leading out of the city. MORE
[29 NOV 00] ELDERLY
WOMAN DIES IN COUNTRY ROAD CRASH
An elderly woman died
today after the car in which she was travelling crashed near
Rugby. MORE
[29 NOV 00] HUNT
ON FOR RAIL BEER KEG VANDALS
Yobs put the lives of
rail passengers in Coventry at risk when they put a beer
barrel on the track and caused the train’s brakes to seize
up. MORE
[29 NOV 00] BOY
HIT AS MOBILE PHONE STOLEN
A 15-year-old boy was
assaulted as he walked down a road in Earlsdon, Coventry when
he refused to hand over his mobile phone to a gang of
youths. MORE
[29 NOV 00] TILL
TAKEN BY ARMED GANG
Three men armed with a
baseball bat ran off with a till from a Coventry shop
yesterday. MORE
[28 NOV 00] MAN
DRAGGED FROM BED AND KIDNAPPED
A man was dragged from
his bed, driven to a quarry and attacked when he was kidnapped
by two men. MORE
[28 NOV 00] YOUTH
THREATENED WITH CROWBAR IN ROBBERY
A 17-year-old lad was
threatened with a crowbar by a gang before being robbed of his
wallet and mobile phone. MORE
[27 NOV 00] FIVE
TEENAGERS KILLED IN HORRIFIC CRASH
Five teenage friends
were killed when their car was in a head-on collision with a
lorry on a country road. MORE
[27 NOV 00] STUDENTS
WEEP AS THEY RECALL DEAD FRIENDS
Friends of the five
teenagers killed in Friday’s tragedy clung to each other and
wept today as they tried to describe what the loss meant to
them. MORE
[27 NOV 00] DRIVER
IN MIRACLE MOTORWAY ESCAPE
A driver had a
miraculous escape when he was thrown from his van and landed
in the middle lane of the M6. MORE
[27 NOV 00] BOY
SPRAYED WITH PAINT IN HAMMER ATTACK
A 15-year-old boy was
sprayed with paint and attacked with hammer as two men robbed
him and his friend. MORE
[27 NOV 00] MAN
KICKED IN STREET ROBBERY
A man was pushed to
the floor and kicked by two robbers who stole money from him
early on Saturday morning. MORE
[24 NOV 00] HOT
PURSUIT FOLLOWS SCREWDRIVER ATTACK
Five youths are in
police custody today following a motorway chase which started
after a woman was hit on the head with a screwdriver in an
attempted robbery. MORE
[24 NOV 00] KEBAB
MAN CONFRONTED WITH BASEBALL BAT
A kebab delivery man
was greeted by two masked men wielding a baseball bat when he
tried to deliver his order at a house early this
morning. MORE
[23 NOV 00] DEAD
MAN'S BODY FOUND IN PUBLIC TOILET
A body was discovered
in public toilets in a car park in Rugby yesterday.
MORE
[23 NOV 00] TEENAGER
THREATENED WITH KNIFE IN STREET
A 13-year-old boy was
threatened at knife point as he walked down a Coventry street
by a robber who demanded his mobile phone. MORE
[23 NOV 00] FOOTBALL
FANS COULD HOLD KEY TO VIOLENCE
Football fans are
being urged to come forward as witnesses after a gang marauded
through a railway station, attacking staff and passengers and
smashing windows. MORE
[23 NOV 00] MAN
ARRESTED AFTER ROOFTOP CHASE
A man was in custody
awaiting interview today after a rooftop chase through
Nuneaton finally ended in his arrest. MORE
[22 NOV 00] SNOOKER
CUE USED IN GANG ATTACK
A 20-year-old man was
repeatedly kicked and punched in the head and attacked with a
snooker cue by a gang outside a pub. MORE
[22 NOV 00] LOBBY
BOBBY IN ANT-CRIME PUSH
Police in Nuneaton are
going on a Christmas offensive to stop people becoming festive
victims of crime. MORE
[22 NOV 00] TAKING
THE GROT OUT OF GROTTOES
A different kind of
little helper will be visiting Santa’s grottoes in
Warwickshire this Christmas to make sure that small children
aren’t being given dangerous presents. MORE
[21 NOV 00] PENSIONER STUCK UNDER
WHEELS OF BUS
A Coventry pensioner
was trapped under the wheels of a bus after an accident at a
busy junction in the city. MORE
[21 NOV 00] PEDESTRIAN SENT FLYING
THROUGH WINDOW
A pedestrian was sent
flying through a shop window after he was hit by a car which
crashed in Warwick town centre yesterday. MORE
[20 NOV 00] TEENAGER DIES IN ROAD SMASH
A teenager was killed
as he tried to negotiate an accident blackspot near Coventry
at the weekend. MORE
[20 NOV 00] PENSIONER KILLED IN HOUSE
FIRE
A Coventry pensioner
died in a fire in her house in Walsgrave early today.
MORE
[20 NOV 00] COVENTRY YOUTH THREATENED
WITH STABBING
A teenager was grabbed
around the neck and told he would be stabbed if he did not
hand his expensive mobile phone over. MORE
[18 NOV 00] ROBBERS HIT COVENTRY
KWIKSAVE
A
worker at a Coventry branch of Kwiksave was forced at gunpoint
to return to his store to open it for robbers who stole
£5,000 of goods. MORE
[18 NOV 00] ARMED ROBBERY AT BULKINGTON
STORE
Armed
robbers threatened a shopkeeper with a gun and hit him on the
head several times as they raided a store in Bulkington.
MORE
[17 NOV 00] MAN PLUMMETS TO DEATH FROM
FARM ROOF
A man working on a
farm near Leamington plummeted to his death after falling
through a roof in mysterious circumstances yesterday.
MORE
[17 NOV 00] NAKED MAN EXPOSES HIMSELF
TO RUGBY WOMAN
A Rugby woman was
startled by a naked man who exposed himself while she was
walking her dog yesterday. MORE
[17 NOV 00] CROC'S AWAY AS SNAKE LEFT
HOME ALONE
The
RSPCA is calling for tighter controls on the trade an
ownership of exotic pets after a crocodile was found in a shed
in Rugby and househunters found an abandoned snake in Nuneaton.
MORE
[17 NOV 00] GUN POINTED IN OFF-LICENCE
RAID
Armed robbers pointed
a gun at a shop assistant in Coventry off-licence before
escaping with cash from the till yesterday. MORE
[17 NOV 00] MUGGERS FLOOR PENSIONER IN
PURSE SNATCH
A pensioner was pushed
to the ground by muggers who stole her purse containing £500
in Coventry yesterday. MORE
[16 NOV 00] BOY AGED 13 KILLED IN
COVENTRY CAR SMASH
A 13-year-old boy was
killed and several others injured in a horrific rush hour
crash in Coventry yesterday. MORE
[16 NOV 00] POST OFFICE ROBBED AT GUN
POINT
A sub-postmistress was
bound and hit unconscious by armed robbers who raided her safe
yesterday. MORE
[16 NOV 00] PROSTITUTES HIT IN KERBSIDE
SEX TRADE CRUSADE
Kerb-crawlers and
prostitutes have been targeted by a special police unit in a
crackdown on vice in Coventry. MORE
[15 NOV 00] GANG CONS ITS WAY INTO
PENSIONERS' HOMES
Pensioners in Coventry
and Rugby were conned out of their pensions and savings by a
gang on a confidence trick marathon yesterday. MORE
[15 NOV 00] KNIFE MAN BRUSHES OFF WOMAN
TO STRIKE AGAIN
A knife-wielding
robber struck for the second time in a week when he threatened
a shopkeeper defending herself with a broom in Leamington.
MORE
[15 NOV 00] TEENAGE BOY SUFFERS
FRACTURED SKULL
A 15-year-old boy had
his skull fractured when a gang of children set about him near
a Rugby school. MORE
[15 NOV 00] SHOTGUNS STOLEN FROM CITY
SHOP
Eight new shotguns are
now thought to be circulating among Coventry’s criminal
fraternity after they were stolen from a city gun shop.
MORE
[15 NOV 00] WOMAN MUGGED IN COVENTRY
STREET
A woman was shoved
against a wall and had her handbag wrenched from her in a
daylight attack in a Coventry street. MORE
[15 NOV 00] VANDALS COVER HOUSE AND CAR
IN PAINT
Tins of decorator’s
paint were hurled over a car and a house in Tile Hill causing
extensive damage in an apparently motiveless attack.
MORE
[14 NOV 00] SLASHING VICTIM APPEALS FOR
WITNESSES
A Good Samaritan
student who suffered horrific injuries when he was slashed in
the face with a bottle has appealed for witnesses to come
forward. MORE
[14 NOV 00] PENSIONER KILLED IN RUGBY
ROAD CRASH
A 78-year-old Rugby
died yesterday when he lost control of his car and hit a tree
just yards from his home. MORE
[14 NOV 00] CIGARETTES SWIPED IN
NUNEATON GRAB AND CARRY
Cigarettes and phone
cards worth £800 were grabbed from a cash and carry
supermarket as staff were unloading goods. MORE
[13 NOV 00] PARACHUTIST HURT IN HORROR
FALL
A parachutist was rescued from Coventry
Airport on Saturday after he crash-landed on a hangar.
MORE
[13 NOV 00] KNIFE MAN HOLDS UP PETROL
STATION
A petrol station in Warwick was held up
by a knife-wielding robber who threatened a teenage
cashier. MORE
[13 NOV 00] CAR CRASH ESCAPEES BEING
HUNTED
Police are trying to trace the driver of
a car who fled the scene after crashing into another vehicle
in Coventry. MORE
[13 NOV 00] YOUNG BOY SET UPON BY GANG
IN PARK
A 12-year-old boy was attacked by a gang
of children, some of whom were as young as seven, as he played
in Coventry’s War Memorial Park. MORE
[13 NOV 00] POLICE AND CHILDREN GET
WHIPLASH IN CRASHES
Three police officers suffered whiplash
injuries as they crashed while on the way to deal with another
car accident near Atherstone. MORE
[13 NOV 00] RUGBY
IS FUEL'S PARADISE FOR CONVOY STOPOVER
Fuel protestors were
cheered from bridges as they drove through the West Midlands
yesterday, but support for their convoy is dwindling.
MORE
[10 NOV 00] DRUGS WARNING AFTER HEROIN
USER DIES
Drug users are being warned to be on
their guard after a woman was found dead in a Hillfields house
yesterday. MORE
[10 NOV 00] FUEL
PROTESTORS TOLD TO KEEP ON MOVING
Fuel protestors have
been warned that police in Warwickshire and the West Midlands
will clamp down hard on any slow-moving convoys moving through
the area. MORE
[10 NOV 00] GARDEN CREATED IN MEMORY OF
LOUISA
Pupils at a Leamington School are to
create a garden in memory of a classmate who died in a car
accident last year. MORE
[09 NOV 00] COVENTRY MAN FACES SPANISH
AIR RAGE CHARGES
A Coventry man is being extradited to
Spain to face allegations that he slashed a stewardess with a
bottle in an air rage attack. MORE
[09 NOV 00] MAN'S LUNG PUNCTURED IN
FOLESHILL STABBING
A gang tracked a Coventry man down and
stabbed him in his abdomen and lung in a street brawl in
Foleshill yesterday. MORE
[08 NOV 00] 'ANTI-SOCIAL' WOOD END MEN
TOLD TO BEHAVE
Two Coventry men have become the first
in the city to be served with orders cracking down on their
anti-social behaviour on an estate. MORE
[08 NOV 00] POLICE HOME IN LORRY THAT
KILLED MOTORCYCLIST
Police hunting a lorry driver who only
stopped after hitting a motorcyclist to remove the wreckage
from under his wheels say they have made good progress in
their search. MORE
[07 NOV 00] BIG
FINE FOR 'LETHAL' CANCER MACHINE CLAIMS
Directors of a firm
which claimed that a machine could help relieve a Rugby man’s
terminal cancer when it was dangerous to use and have been
fined £14,500. MORE
[07 NOV 00] MASKED
RAIDERS HIT COVENTRY PUB
Masked men forced
their way into a Coventry pub and forced the manger to hand
over a large sum of money. MORE
[06 NOV 00] STABBING
IN FOOTBALL STREET FRACAS
A man was taken to
hospital with stab wounds after a fracas broke out following
Coventry’s game with Manchester United yesterday.
MORE
[06 NOV 00] MORE
FLOOD WARNINGS AS HEAVENS OPEN AGAIN
Rivers in Warwickshire
were put on flood alert today as more heavy rain caused
several stretches of water to swell and roads to close.
MORE
[06 NOV 00] DROWNED
MAN FOUND IN CITY RIVER IS NAMED
A body that was
discovered floating in the River Sherbourne last week has been
identified. MORE
[05 NOV 00] FAMILY
IN FIREWORK NEAR MISS
A family had a narrow escape from serious
injury yesterday when a firework flew through their car window
when they were watching a display. MORE
[03 NOV 00] RUGBY
RAIDER IN £60,000 JEWELLERY HEIST
An armed raider
threatened staff at a Rugby jewellers with a gun and made off
with goods worth £60,000 yesterday. MORE
[03 NOV 00] BOY
HURT BY HIT AND RUN DRIVER
A Coventry teenager
narrowly avoided death when a motorist mounted a pavement and
hit him with his car before driving off. MORE
[03 NOV 00] BOBBIES
ON THE BEAT IN SPON END AND RADFORD
Police in Coventry are
taking to the streets of Spon End and Radford next week to try
and reduce crime and disorder in the area. MORE
[03 NOV 00] INCIDENT
ROOM SET UP AS DRIVER HUNT GROWS
Police in Warwickshire
are launching a major investigation into the death of a
motorcyclist who was killed on the M40 on Monday.
MORE
[02 NOV 00] STOLEN
GARDEN ANTIQUES ON WEB PARADE
Police
have set up a special website to try and trace the owners of
stolen antique garden furniture. MORE
[02 NOV 00] POLICE
STEP UP CAR CRIME PATROLS
Police in Coventry are
cracking down on car crime in the run-up to Christmas as the
number offences has bucked regional trends and risen.
MORE
[02 NOV 00] SUBMARINE
'ATTACKER' FACES RETRIAL
A former Warwick
University student and Coventry peace campaigner will have to
face a jury again over damage she caused to a nuclear
submarine. MORE
[01 NOV 00] MOTORCYCLIST
KILLED IN RUSH HOUR CRASH
A Bedworth
motorcyclist was killed on a busy Coventry road yesterday when
he hit a kerb and fell off. MORE
[01 NOV 00] NUNEATON
THUGS SLAUGHTER SMALL ANIMALS
Thugs killed chickens,
gerbils and guinea pigs when they set a cage of ferrets on
them at a small-holding near Nuneaton. MORE
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