Crime

A SHINFIELD store has been targeted by thieves overnight. The Co-operative in School Green was ram-raided and a cash machine was stolen. This morning a police presence is on site...

Nominations for this year’s policing awards opened on Monday. For the last 18 years, Thames Valley Police have used the policing awards to celebrate the work of officers, staff and...

Action Fraud says it has reported an increase in the reports of fraudulent calls, voicemails, text messages and emails purporting to be from HMRC. These impostors claim that the victim...

Chief Inspector Darran Hill has been appointed as the new Deputy Commander for neighbouring Reading Local Policing Area (LPA). On Tuesday, January 1, Ch Insp Hill took over from Emma...

RESIDENTS across the borough have reported sightings of two men in a van looking for 'scrap metal'. Throughout the week, there have been a number of postings on social media...

A STUDENT home for the Christmas holidays had an unwelcome return after being the victim of a malicious assault. The 19-year-old woman – who did not want to be named...

A TWYFORD man has been given a six-and-a-half year jail sentence after being found guilty of attempting to run someone over. On Thursday, January 10,  Reading Crown Court passed the...

POLICE are appealing for two men to come forward after a road rage incident in Finchampstead last week. They say that the pictured people may have vital information that can...

ANOTHER late night assault has taken place in Wokingham’s town centre just weeks after two similar events. In the early hours of Friday, December 28, Thames Valley Police was called...

THE family of a woman found dead in a Shinfield home on Boxing Day have said that she was a “kind and generous person” who lived life to the full....