joyrider jailed over car thefts - This is Wiltshire
26 May 2012, 12:57 pm
A teenager who broke into houses to steal car keys so he could go joyriding has been jailed. Jason Appleyard, 19, of Phipps Close, Westbury, and a 16-year-old boy were responsible for a spate of offences in the town over a month last year. Some cars were ...

joyrider pupils steal teacher's car - The Sun
24 May 2012, 1:06 pm
The pupils — two girls and a boy aged between 15 and 16 — took the car keys from their teacher’s handbag and drove off during a lesson. And they only returned the car so that they would be back in time for LUNCH. They were rumbled after another ...

joyrider wrote off car in crash - Shields Gazette
22 May 2012, 10:46 am
A MAN’S late-night joyride turned to terror after the car he stole with a friend crashed into a fence post. Carl Glendinning and a pal took the Ford Ka from outside a house party they had been to in Laygate, South Shields. The next morning, police ...

Bermuda has sand and sunshine - with just a hint of smugness - Daily Telegraph
19 May 2012, 9:09 am
The 21-mile route of an old railway line offers interesting walking and cycling, although I found its plethora of anti-joyrider barriers frustrating. At the western tip of the island, the massive Royal Naval Dockyard, dating from 1814, houses absorbing ...

Good cop, mad cop routine is fine for Hollywood, but let's keep it there - The Age
19 May 2012, 8:55 am
How could any police officer believe it was appropriate to put at risk the lives of innocent motorists in order to apprehend a speeding joyrider? If you apply the same logic to other crimes, it would be acceptable for police to burn buildings to thwart ...

Pevensey fire station celebrates centenary - Lewes Today
17 May 2012, 8:00 am
There was also an extrication exercise, which involved a mock scenario with a joyrider rolling the car. Again, the fire appliance arrived, sirens on and blue lights flashing, with crews quickly removing the casualty from the vehicle. A wide range of ...

joyrider stole taxi and drove through town before crashing into wall - Stv.tv
15 May 2012, 10:25 am
A man who stole a taxi and went on a joyride through a town centre before smashing into a wall has been jailed for more than three years. Brian Kelly, who has spent almost all of the last 15 years in jail for a variety of offences, stole the taxi from a ...

Care home resident’s lucky escape - hartlepoolmail.co.uk
14 May 2012, 7:56 am
A CARE home resident narrowly escaped being seriously hurt when a joyrider crashed into a wall and sent a breeze block flying into his room. The man was in his bedroom at West Villas Care Home in Hartlepool when Sam Brownless mounted the pavement and ...

Fed up neighbours put boy racer's car up a tree - Metro.co.uk
9 May 2012, 7:55 am
Disgruntled neighbours of joyrider Zbigniew Filo sought to put his driving days behind him when they somehow hoisted his souped-up vehicle atop a tree. Zbigniew Filo reports a case for the special branch (Picture: CEN) Filo, 24, awoke to find his car ...