'I was forced to spend a night in a dirty cell... all because some ex police officer couldn't control his anger and his colleagues saw it fit to cover for him. I have lost all trust in the police and would rather die that call them when I'm in trouble,' [Abiodun Adeleye] raged. A Met Police spokersperson told New Nation: 'At this time no official complaint has been received, any complaint received will be investigated fully. The man in question is no longer a serving police officer.'
ONCE a giant of the copper industry Swansea will mark that role with a series of tours, talks, screenings and exhibitions from tomorrow. The museums, galleries and former industrial sites are all on board, marking 200 years since the first copper ingot rolled out of the Hafod Copperworks. Some of the highlights of the festival will include features on copper at the Waterfront Museum, slide-shows on Swansea's Big Screen, behind the scenes tours at Swansea University library, a show of industrial artefacts at the Glynn Vivian, and guided copperworks tours, leaving Swansea Museum Collections Centre in Landore between 2.45pm and 3pm.
COPPER thieves have ransacked a former Swansea hospital site. They made off with a stash of copper cylinders, radiators and pipe work from the redundant Fairwood Hospital site, police have confirmed.
IT was an event that helped to change the world -- and it happened in South West Wales two centuries ago. The weekend saw the 200th anniversary of the first copper ingot being produced at the world-famous Hafod Copperworks in Swansea.
RAILWAY lines are being targeted by copper cable thieves almost every night, British Transport Police has revealed. Incidents are particularly prevalent in Swansea and Newport - although other parts of Wales are being targeted as thieves exploit the rising cost of raw materials.
THE Copper Kingdom is one of the most amazing places in North Wales, and a must-see destination for tourists - or it would be if they only knew about it. Now at last, there is a chance that they might, thanks to years of unpaid hard work by members of Amlwch Industrial Heritage Trust and the pounds 500,000 lottery grant it recently won, doubled with match funding from Anglesey County Council.
CENTRAL Networks, the electricity distribution company for Lincolnshire, is issuing a warning to copper thieves as it rolls SmartWater out across its network. The liquid SmartWater is used to mark property and make it easier to trace when stolen.
Of the old hulks that litter many of our estuaries in the Westcountry, most have just been quietly abandoned by their owners and left to rot. Those with wooden hulls gently fall to bits to make perfect subjects for the numerous artists throughout the region, but larger ships contain valuable scrap metal, which is where the copper for the plaque commemorating Lord Nelson came from on Cloud Cuckoo Land's stand at tomorrow's fair in Lostwithiel. Featuring a portrait of the great man and his most famous speech of "England expects that every man will do his duty", together with an image of his ship, etc it costs Pounds 120. Bijou Jewellery will show a French miniature bronze bust of a woman with a hat balanced on the back of her head. Although only 4in tall, this enchanting ornament is price...
TWO men have been arrested after copper piping was stolen from houses in Derby. Thieves broke into one before climbing through the loft space to get into another. They turned off the gas to steal the pipes and two sets of curtain poles from the empty homes on Saturday.
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