Crime

Mystery surrounds the disappearance of three cats from the same Sunbury home in seven months.

Owner Sarah Wilson is distraught after the latest disappearance from her home in Spelthorne Grove, which happened last week.

Thousands of pounds worth of laptops and phones were stolen from a business in Sunbury and police are looking for witnesses.

Two burglars drove to the business, in Hanworth Road, in a white transit van and broke in by forcing open a metal door and then smashing into a security cage and stealing a large number of laptops and mobile phones, before driving off.

A police panel meeting is being held tomorrow (Thursday) in the Manning Room behind St Ignatius Church, Green Street, Lower Sunbury at 7.30pm.

A police surgery will also be held at the parade of shops in The Avenue on Saturday April 11 from 1-3pm.

Police are continuing to hunt for three men who bundled a woman into a car on Christmas Eve and are in need of witnesses to come forward.

The woman, in her 50s, was near the WIndmill Industrial Estate in Windmill Road, Sunbury, when she was dragged, screaming, into a dark-coloured car between 5pm-5.30pm. She managed to escape later that evening.

The men are described as of Asian appearance and anyone with information should call Surrey Police on 0845 125 2222, quoting reference SL/08/8068.

Street-savvy youths from Spelthorne signed a petition pledging not to carry knives and presented it to Spelthorne MP, David Wilshire, at the House of Commons last week.

More than 5,000 young people signed the petition, 'Knives Wreck Lives' - organised by the Spelthorne Youth Council - which launched on October 27 and presented their pledges to their local MP on Tuesday, December 9.

Police have made patrolling Thames Street in Lower Sunbury a priority in a bid to stamp out overweight lorries using the route.

Officers have warned they will issue fixed penalty notices to any driver that breaks the 7.5 tonne restriction.

Firefighters attended a bonfire that was out of control by St Mary's Church, Church Street, on Saturday November 15 at 1.30pm, using one hosereel to douse the flames.

RIVER police joined forces with the Environment Agency and made a string of arrests in a crime clampdown on the Thames.

Operation Inveigle focused on the stretch of river between Shepperton and Teddington Locks and officers spent four days making arrests, including one for possession of Class A drugs and two for possession of stolen goods. They also made three seizures of herbal cannabis and reported five vessels for unlicenced activity.

Two teenagers who were part of a gang of six that left a boy with a fractured skull in Green Street earlier this year, admitted to affray at Staines Youth Court on October 8 and will be sentenced there on October 29.

Two Sunbury teenagers have been issued with interim Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBO) following a successful application by Surrey Police.

The ASBO was imposed on the two girls aged 16, who police won't name for legal reasons, at North Surrey Magistrates Court on Friday August 29.