Crime

POLICE officers will be working with businesses in a town centre in the ongoing fight against anti-social behaviour.

POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a number of vehicles were vandalised in Portsmouth earlier this week.

HERITAGE bosses have tightened up their security after fraudsters conned a leading museum out of almost £74,000 in an internet scam.

A MAN on trial charged with drugging and raping men he met on a gay hook-up app laced a drink with GHB, an alleged victim told jurors.

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TRADERS and people living in an area that has suffered an increase in anti-social behaviour have welcomed CCTV cameras being installed.

A DRUG dealer from Gosport is today beginning his new life – behind bars – after being caught supplying crack cocaine and heroin in the town.

THE number of violent attacks on ambulance workers have more than doubled in the past five years.

A mother is facing a charge of murdering her three-year-old daughter who died from drowning.

A STUDENT allegedly drugged and raped by a man he met on the gay hook-up app Grindr said he used ‘deceit’ to continue talking to the accused, jurors heard.

A POLICE officer has told of her ‘deep upset’ at finding out a man who bit her in a ‘bloodthirsty’ attack was released ‘seven months’ into a 28-month jail term.

VANDALS smashed into beach huts in Southsea for the second time in just a week - leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.