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Police chase suspected lead thieves

3:21pm Thursday 18th March 2010 in


POLICE used their helicopter to chase suspected lead thieves.

Officers were called at 2.30pm following reports of a theft in Boxted Road, Colchester.

Police used their helicopter to follow a vehicle down the A12 from Colchester to the Braintree area.

  • FULL STORY IN FRIDAY'S GAZETTE

Comments(6)

Taj says...
3:47pm Thu 18 Mar 10

And? what happened next,did they catch them or just watch from above?
Brilliant ,really interesting story

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Taj says...
3:47pm Thu 18 Mar 10

And? what happened next,did they catch them or just watch from above?
Brilliant ,really interesting story

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Sparkfilms says...
5:10pm Thu 18 Mar 10

It does seem a bit limp of any newspaper to put something as curtailed as this on a website.

I suppose the idea is to buy the paper and get the full story, not that it seems to be of much interest though.

The police helicopters often occupy the skies above Riverside Estate, but the only word around here is of the odd bycycle theft and a missing gerbil.

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Mariner32 says...
6:17pm Thu 18 Mar 10

The reporting on here does not improve.

Did they catch them? The police would have a hard job following them if they were flying down the A12 and the robbers were heading to Braintree.

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Sparkfilms says...
6:51pm Thu 18 Mar 10

It seems like I'm being over critical, but there are only 3 short paragraphs in this piece and the 1st and 3rd both begin with the same four words - 'Police used their helicopter'.
Most newspapers have cut back on the use of sub editors and as far as online goes it just seems to get keyed in ASAP without anyone ( apart from us ) checking the text.
As I understand it The Gazette has cut the editorial team to the bone, which just mirrors the demise of provincial press in general.

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seco2 says...
8:51pm Thu 18 Mar 10

The Gazette is frightened to write anything that might upset the Council or the Police. Hence these ridiculous vignettes that tell us nothing; the total refusal to do investigative work; the towing-the-line over every official press release and/or utterance.. Has anyone else noticed that it reads like Pravda, c.1980, when it comes to anything connected with the aforementioned Police/Council..!?!?

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