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• News / Ashton Gate

  Football banning orders likely for City fans after fight

  Bristol City say they are "appalled" by the violence outside Ashton Gate on Saturday

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• News / Crime

  Police boss denies Bristol is ‘hub of violent crime’

  Superintendent Mark Runacres admitted murders of several teenagers had damaged Bristol's reputation

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• News / Housing

  Court delays slow action on evicting Traveller encampments

  "When people are passing through they don’t necessarily respect the area as much as they might."

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• News / Crime

  Knife crime rises

  The report acknowledged the tragic loss of young lives through knife crime

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• Your say / Clare Moody

  ‘Policing has suffered through cuts over recent years’

  Avon and Somerset Police's PCC Clare Moody hopes to bring the Police and Crime Plan to life in 2025

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• News / avon and somerset police

  Armed police descend on shopping centre

  Police swooped on the Galleries after reports that a man had a knife

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• News / King's Honours

  Desmond Brown recognised in new year honours

  Desmond was pivotal in establishing the Independent Scrutiny of Police Powers Panel

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• News / Crime

  Ban on naming 17-year-old lifted at sentencing of murderers of Max and Mason

  The three teenagers and Riley Tolliver were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court

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