• Melksham Scapyard on Scrapheap

  By Phil_McMullen

  Is anyone aware of any other scrapyards around Melksham or the immediate locality? I have a small...

            

   

  By Sasha Heseltine at 17:45 on 15/02/12

  

  Owners of a Melksham scrapyard  have been banned from buying more metal following the local police. Melksham Metal Recycling and three yards in Trowbridge, Christian Malford and Swindon were raided by police on Monday last week as part of a major campaign against the recent spate of metal thefts. Ten people were arrested for various offences and a large amount of probably stolen metal was taken away by the police. ...

• Boys Clean Melksham Loos to Make Amends for Damaging Them

  By lisaell

  As far as cost goes, I'd rather the spend of my tax money go toward two people supervising* them for...

            

   

  By Sasha Heseltine at 14:00 on 04/10/11

  

  Three youngsters Melksham – one aged 13 and two aged 14 – blocked up toilets, set toilet paper on fire and flooded a cubical at the public conveniences in Bath Road. The incident was dealt with by way of Local Resolution, which sees justice being delivered in the community for some low-level crime and anti-social behaviour. his means the kids do not have to appear in court and do not get a criminal record. Good or awful...

• Melksham Police Ask for Information Following Criminal Damage

  By Angusmeercat

  Yes Rachel Butler at The Baguette Bar once told me that the police borrow her CCTV film if anything...

            

   

  By Angusmeercat at 13:11 on 21/06/11

  

  Melksham police officers are appealing for your help to identify the man pictured in the CCTV images as he is suspected of criminal damage in Melksham. The incident happened some time ago at around 2:30am on Saturday 14th May 2011. A man was walking along Place Road in Melksham when he stopped and kicked back the driver's side wind mirror of a car parked along the road before walking off. If you recognise the man pictured in the CCTV...

• Melksham Man Escapes Prison

  By Paulweymouth

  At a cost of mere thousands to the tax payer... So he gets essentially nothing because hes got a kid...

            

   

  By Angusmeercat at 08:12 on 06/04/11

  

  A Melksham thug who was involved in an attack in Chicoland has walked free from court. 24-year-old Steven Robins and pal Julian Drew, 22, attacked the man on Saturday September 11 last year. CCTV footage from inside Chicoland showed both men punching on their victim. Drew kicked him a number of times and then smashed him on the head with the bottle, which shattered on impact. Aged 22, of Bowden Crescent, Melksham, he admitted...

• A new style of theft to hit Melksham?

  By Sasha Heseltine

  And five large dogs!

            

   

  By Sasha Heseltine at 16:13 on 06/01/11

  

  I wonder of this has happened to anyone else in the Melksham area? Some time over New Year kind folk syphoned nearly 700 litres of oil from our oil tank. The only reason we found this out was yesterday when the central heating went off at about 9pm in the evening. Now we are without heating and hot water and will be until we can get another delivery of oil. Our tank is visible to the road, so it means that whoever stole our oil would...

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