Bristol riot has cost the city thousands

 

 

By Marc Rath / m.rath@bepp.co.uk

THE two nights of rioting in Bristol are likely to cost the city hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Shops and businesses are counting the cost of the public disorder which saw vandals and looters take to the streets on Monday and Tuesday night following widespread civil unrest in London.

The bill for replacing burnt-out vehicles, smashed windows, torched bins, damaged buildings and stolen property alone is expected to easily top £70,000.

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Bristol “returning to normal” after riots

 

 

From Avon and Somerset Police

Life in Bristol has been returning to normal following the scenes of vandalism and disorder on the streets earlier this week.

Bristol has tonight enjoyed a very normal Wednesday night.

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Police appeal for Bristol riots suspects

 

 

By Dan Evans, Crime Correspondent / d.evans@bepp.co.uk

Police have issued CCTV images of the suspects believed to have been involved in the latest Bristol riots and are appealing to Evening Post readers for help identifying them.

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Hairdresser’s dream destroyed by Bristol looters

 

 

By Sam Rkaina, Local Government Reporter / s.rkaina@bepp.co.uk

A HAIRDRESSER is furious after hooligans looted her shop just months after she fulfilled the dream of opening her own business.

Nuala Morey has been wanting to open her own hairdressing salon since she was six years old.

Twenty years later she finally got her wish when she opened Nuala Hair Studio in Gloucester Road in April.

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Rioting returns to Bristol

 

 

By Emily Koch, Dan Evans, Liz Webster and Ian Onions

RIOTING spread to Bristol on Monday night with trouble on the streets of St Paul’s, Montpelier, St Werburgh’s, Kingswood and at Cabot Circus shopping centre.

The violence started in the early hours of the morning, as masked gangs of youths threw bricks in the streets and set cars and bins alight.The aftermath of the trouble was visible this morning as fire crews were still working to make the areas safe.

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Dozens of bodies buried without body parts – Bristol families not told

 

By Vicki Mathias, Health Correspondent

DOZENS of families whose loved ones died in suspicious circumstances have been told that they went to their graves with some of their body parts missing.

The organs or tissue of about 110 people whose deaths were the subject of police investigations – including murder and manslaughter inquiries – over the last 25 years
were retained as evidence after post-mortem examinations, it has emerged.

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Filton crime needs New York style crackdown claims Tory MP

By Rachel Clare

POLICE and residents have rejected suggestions by Conservative MP Jack Lopresti that police could solve gang problems in Filton by copying tactics used in New York when crime was rife.

In a House of Commons speech Mr Lopresti, who represents the Filton and Bradley Stoke ward, claimed his constituents were suffering at the hands of a “few thugs” who were waging a campaign of “intimidation and abuse”.

He said he was unsatisfied with the police response and invited chief constable Colin Port to meet with residents to discuss the problem.

But Avon and Somerset police told the Evening Post officers had done all they could to resolve the problem, which they called “low-level”.

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Calls for investigation in police tactics at Stokes Croft riots

By Sam Rkaina, Local Government Reporter

CALLS have been made for an investigation into the police tactics used during both Cheltenham Road riots.

At a public meeting to discuss the area’s recent problems on Monday night, a number of residents said that either they or people they knew had been injured by officers during the two incidents.

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Bristol Lib Dems give elected police thumbs down

From the Bristol Liberal Democrats

BRISTOL Lib Dems today welcomed a serious setback in Parliament for the government’s plans for elected police commissioners.

“The legislation is fundamentally flawed,” said city council leader Barbara Janke.

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