Ten arrested as part of road safety operation - Reading TEN PEOPLE have been arrested and 15 cars have been seized following a police operation in Reading, targeting drivers suspected of being impaired by drink or drugs. The joint operation, combining forces from Joint Operations Roads Policing Unit and Reading Local Policing Area, took place across the town s main roads. These included Basingstoke Road A33, Bath Road, Oxford Road, and London Road during a six-hour operation on Friday, February 26. Sergeant Edward Crofts, of the Joint Operations Roads Policing Unit, said: “The focus of our operation was to carry out high visibility road traffic enforcement across the town on a number of key roads.
A lorry driver was jailed for causing a crash that left two police officers with life-changing injuries. Andrei Stan, of Romania, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on February 25 after the serious crash which happened on the A4 Bath Road in 2019. The court heard how the 35-year-old driver was attempting a U-turn on the unlit rural road on February 27, 2019, about 11.40pm. At that time, PC Matt Midwinter and PC Kieren Baker, of Thames Valley Police, were travelling on the same road.
Siobhan Maven-Hazelton A woman was brought before the courts for more than 12 counts of shop thefts, that happened between August 2020 and February this year.
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Last ditch bid to thwart Newbury town centre Cashino gambling parlour fails
Appeal against outlet is dismissed
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A LAST-ditch legal challenge to a proposed town centre bingo and slot machine business has failed.
More than 200 residents had objected to the plans to site the Cashino outlet at the former William Hill bookmakers in Market Place, Newbury, citing crime fears.
But last November, West Berkshire Council’s licensing sub committee agreed to it, noting that Thames Valley Police had offered no objection.
One of the opponents, 70-year-old Alfie Grant, decided to appeal the decision at Reading Magistrates’ Court.
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