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Scotsman
11 hours ago
- Scotsman
More than 40 Edinburgh arrests in three months of Retail Crime Taskforce with several banned from city centre
More than 40 people have been arrested in connection with retail crime offences in Edinburgh during the first three months of the Retail Crime Taskforce. Sign up to the daily Crime UK newsletter. All the latest crime news and trials from across the UK. Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Between April 1 and uly 14, Taskforce officers, working alongside Edinburgh's Prevention Intervention and Partnerships Unit, and city centre policing teams, charged 44 individuals with 228 crimes, including shoplifting, assault, possession of weapons and breaches of the peace. As a result of these arrests, several people have been given bail conditions prohibiting them from the city centre, meaning any breach of these conditions will see them remanded in custody prior to their court hearing. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Significant intelligence has also been gathered by the Taskforce and local policing teams and will be progressed for further enforcement action. More than 40 people have been arrested in connection with retail crime offences in Edinburgh during the first three months of the Retail Crime Taskforce, with several people banned from the city centre. Inspector Emma Wright from the Retail Crime Taskforce said: 'I am really encouraged with the positive start Taskforce officers have made in Edinburgh, as they work alongside divisional colleagues to identify retail crime offenders and bring them to justice. 'We cannot and will not become complacent, however, and will continue to target those involved in crimes of this nature across the country. Our role is to support and empower all local policing areas in addressing retail crime and I look forward to even more success stories in the Capital and throughout Scotland in the coming weeks and months. 'By working together, Police Scotland, the retail sector and other key partners aim to make it clear that retail crime will not be tolerated.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Grant Stewart, Senior Manager - Projects at Essential Edinburgh, the business improvement district in the heart of Edinburgh city centre, added: 'Through our innovative retail crime initiative Check Out and our funding of Shopwatch, we are providing practical help to our retail community to fight the ongoing issues of shoplifting, antisocial behaviour and violence against retail staff. 'We know what a major impact these crimes have on our business community, and we are very encouraged by the results in such a short space of time. 'Our sincere thanks to Police Scotland and our retailers for embracing this partnership project.' Superintendent Paul Gillespie, Edinburgh Division's Acquisitive Crime Lead, said: 'Edinburgh remains a safe place to live, work and visit, but we understand the impact retail crime has on not just the retail sector and its employees, but on the city as a whole and we have been working for quite some time to address these issues, alongside businesses within the Capital. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'The introduction of the Retail Crime Taskforce has proven invaluable, as it has provided dedicated resource to support the excellent work being undertaken by the Preventions, Interventions and Partnerships Team, as well as Response Officers working within the city centre. 'These combined efforts have seen us develop our intelligence picture, as well as helping us engage more closely with retailers to offer tailored advice on how they can safeguard their premises. 'The support of Essential Edinburgh cannot be overlooked. Their funding of Shopwatch by providing numerous businesses, police, and the City of Edinburgh Council CCTV team with radios, which allow for direct communication about ongoing incidents has been pivotal in speeding up the response in apprehending offenders. 'Other key partners at Retailers Against Crime have been of great importance too when we conduct enforcement activity or undertake high-visibility engagement patrols in the city centre.'
Edinburgh Reporter
a day ago
- Edinburgh Reporter
Retail Crime Taskforce make 44 arrests in Edinburgh furing firth three months
More than 40 people have been arrested in connection with retail crime offences in Edinburgh during the first three months of the Retail Crime Taskforce supporting local officers to address retail crime. Between 1 April and 14 July 2025, Taskforce officers, working alongside Edinburgh's Prevention Intervention and Partnerships Unit, and city centre policing teams, have charged 44 individuals with 228 crimes, including shoplifting, assault, possession of weapons and breaches of the peace. As a result of these arrests, several people have been given bail conditions prohibiting them from the city centre, meaning any breach of these conditions will see them remanded in custody prior to their court hearing. Significant intelligence has also been gathered by the Taskforce and local policing teams and will be progressed for further enforcement action. Inspector Emma Wright from the Retail Crime Taskforce said: 'I am really encouraged with the positive start Taskforce officers have made in Edinburgh, as they work alongside divisional colleagues to identify retail crime offenders and bring them to justice. 'We cannot and will not become complacent, however, and will continue to target those involved in crimes of this nature across the country. Our role is to support and empower all local policing areas in addressing retail crime and I look forward to even more success stories in the Capital and throughout Scotland in the coming weeks and months. 'By working together, Police Scotland, the retail sector and other key partners aim to make it clear that retail crime will not be tolerated.' Grant Stewart, Senior Manager – Projects at Essential Edinburgh, the business improvement district in the heart of Edinburgh city centre, added: 'Through our innovative retail crime initiative Check Out and our funding of Shopwatch, we are providing practical help to our retail community to fight the ongoing issues of shoplifting, antisocial behaviour and violence against retail staff. 'We know what a major impact these crimes have on our business community, and we are very encouraged by the results in such a short space of time. 'Our sincere thanks to Police Scotland and our retailers for embracing this partnership project.' Superintendent Paul Gillespie, Edinburgh Division's Acquisitive Crime Lead, said: 'Edinburgh remains a safe place to live, work and visit, but we understand the impact retail crime has on not just the retail sector and its employees, but on the city as a whole and we have been working for quite some time to address these issues, alongside businesses within the Capital. 'The introduction of the Retail Crime Taskforce has proven invaluable, as it has provided dedicated resource to support the excellent work being undertaken by the Preventions, Interventions and Partnerships Team, as well as Response Officers working within the city centre. 'These combined efforts have seen us develop our intelligence picture, as well as helping us engage more closely with retailers to offer tailored advice on how they can safeguard their premises. 'The support of Essential Edinburgh cannot be overlooked. Their funding of Shopwatch by providing numerous businesses, police, and the City of Edinburgh Council CCTV team with radios, which allow for direct communication about ongoing incidents has been pivotal in speeding up the response in apprehending offenders. 'Other key partners at Retailers Against Crime have been of great importance too when we conduct enforcement activity or undertake high-visibility engagement patrols in the city centre.' Like this: Like Related
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Stewart trumps Green as Aussies shine in county drama
An English county championship match with a distinct Aussie flavour has ended in an enthralling draw in the seaside town of Blackpool after two very special tons and an inspired wicket-taking burst from among the green-and-gold contingent. In his first county match as Lancashire skipper, 42-year-old legend Jimmy Anderson also played his part in a remarkable second-division match in which a quartet of Australians all starred. Pride of place went to Grant Stewart, an Australian with an Italian background who has earned his spurs at Kent as a crowd-pleasing, fast-bowling allrounder. Grant Stewart's magnificent 130 from only 122 deliveries today saw him pass 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ First-Class Kent Grant 👏🇮🇹 — Kent Cricket (@KentCricket) June 25, 2025 This time he went ballistic at No.9 as Kent fought to save the match against a Lancashire side helped to a massive 9-639 declared in large part thanks to a county debut innings of 154 on Tuesday from West Australian Ashton Turner (11 fours, six sixes). As Kent, 265 runs behind, knuckled down to try to save the match on Wednesday, Lancashire's Australian offspinning allrounder Chris Green put them on the rack, grabbing four wickets, including three victims in just 15 balls, as the visitors slumped to 5-84. But with defeat looking inevitable at 7-116, Stewart teamed up for an amazing, counter-attacking eighth-wicket partnership with Joey Evison to save the day. Deciding attack was the best form of defence, Stewart went on the rampage either side of tea, going to his 50 off 42 balls by smiting three big sixes. Less than 45 minutes later he had scorched his way to a 79-ball hundred, featuring eight sixes and nine fours. The Kalgoorlie-born Stewart, who is not deemed an "overseas player'' because he has a European Union passport through his Italian mother, had in May played an even more destructive innings at No.8, plundering 182 against Gloucestershire at Bristol. This time he and Evison smashed 182 together - an eighth-wicket record for Kent against Lancashire - only for the Aussie to fall to Anderson for 130 (122 balls, 12 fours, nine sixes) with safety having not yet been quite achieved. Step forward another Aussie, Wes Agar, who got them to the draw with his 21 not out alongside Evision's unbeaten 77 as Kent finished on 8-328. Green picked up 4-104. Another Australian batter who enjoyed the introduction of the Kookaburra ball to the county season was Gloucestershire captain Cameron Bancroft, whose mammoth knock of 176 against Derbyshire at Bristol followed his first-innings 58. His monumental second-innings effort, which was ended for the addition of just six runs to his overnight total, had spanned nearly seven and three-quarter hours and 366 balls, and helped him set Derbyshire a victory target of 316 in a minimum of 67 overs. Derbyshire went for broke early, with their Tasmanian opener Caleb Jewell cracking 83 off 80 balls in a 177-run first-wicket partnership with Harry Came (91), who just missed out on his second ton of the match. Australian Test spinner Todd Murphy bowled 58 overs and took five wickets in the match (3-120 and 2-114), which finished in a compelling draw with Derbyshire on 8-296, just 20 short of their target.
Times
25-06-2025
- Sport
- Times
James Anderson denied win by Kent's tail in first game as captain
This season, perhaps, it could only be Lancashire. After seeming on the brink of their first Championship victory of 2025, James Anderson's side had to settle for a draw against Kent at Blackpool where Grant Stewart's gloriously violent 130 transformed the game. Such an outcome seemed the stuff of fantasy just before three o'clock when Harry Finch had walked off Stanley Park after making a four-ball nought and the visiting team were 116 for seven, still 149 runs in arrears. Then it seemed that Anderson was about to lead his side to an innings victory in the 42-year-old's first venture into captaincy. But only 19 wickets had fallen in the first three days and Stewart now joined the splendidly gutsy Joey Evison with the task of batting for a couple of hours or so on what was still a true surface. They succeeded in thrilling fashion, Stewart whacking Mitchell Stanley for three successive sixes just after tea and reaching his second hundred of the season off 79 balls, with nine fours and eight maximums. Anderson had only bowled four overs until just before the second new ball became available but he returned to have Stewart caught at cover by Tom Bailey to revive his side's hopes. However, Wes Agar came out to join Evison and the pair had added a further 30 runs by the time the players shook hands. At that point, Kent were 63 runs ahead, Evison was 77 not out and only a handful of overs remained in the day. For Kent and their head coach, Adam Hollioake, the draw ends a dismal run in which they had lost four successive games, two of them by an innings. However, they could be forgiven if they regarded this result as a quasi-victory. Certainly the outcome will have come as a disappointment to the Australian off spinner, Chris Green, whose four wickets for 104 in 38 overs had put the skids under Kent. His captain, however, was in more sanguine mood. 'I think we played some great cricket throughout the week,' Anderson said. 'But their lower order played really well today. We knew the new ball was coming but we only had a short time with it to get those last couple of wickets. 'Obviously, the lads are disappointed not to get the win. But I just think the way we approached this week felt different to the rest of the season. And I feel if we keep playing like that, we're going to win games.' Edgbaston (final day of four): Warwickshire (11pts) drew with Somerset (14) A game that was slowly expiring 26 minutes after tea suddenly sparked into life, if only for a further 15 overs, when first Tom Latham returned a well-taken low catch to Craig Overton for 52 and the new batsman, Jacob Bethell, was needlessly roused into a hook by Migael Pretorius's bouncers six overs later, skying a top edge to mid-wicket for 12. Set 377 at 5.46 per over, a target never remotely on, Warwickshire were now 131 for four with 23.2 overs to come. They had lost both openers in the first 31 balls, as Jack Leach's left-arm spin shared the new ball with Matt Henry's pace, but Latham and Sam Hain had apparently stifled all Somerset hopes of a fourth championship success on the bounce in an unflustered 98-run stand. As it was Hain, facing 157 balls for an eventual unbeaten 68, needed Ed Barnard to stay with him until the draw was eventually conceded at 5.43pm. At times a ring of ten men surrounded the bat but, on a slow pitch, alarms were few. Somerset's tactics faltered badly in the morning as they tried to establish a target. Surrendering two early wickets after a busy start, they lost a further three later after unduly assiduous retrenchment. The Australian Corey Rocchiccioli, bowling impressive off spin, helped the confusion with five for 67 on his Warwickshire debut as an overseas player, signed for the four rounds of Kookaburra-ball games. In a more unusual scene on the county circuit, Jonny Bairstow bowled only his second-ever over — 11 years after his first — in Yorkshire's County Championship fixture against Nottinghamshire. The Yorkshire captain, who is the county's first-choice wicketkeeper, handed the gloves to Finlay Bean for the final over of the day but had little to show for his efforts, finishing with figures of 0-6. Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager.
BBC News
25-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Resilient Kent deny Lancashire first victory
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Stanley Park, Blackpool (day four)Kent 374 & 328-8: Stewart 130, Evison 77*, Jaydn Denly 57; Green 4-104Lancashire 639-9 dec: Turner 154, Wells 152, Bohannon 124; Evison 3-61Lancashire (14 pts) drew with Kent (11 pts)Match scorecard Grant Stewart's glorious 130 helped to secure a nerve-shredding draw for Kent and frustrate James Anderson on a dramatic last day of the Rothesay County Championship match against Lancashire at an outcome had seemed unlikely in the extreme in mid-afternoon, when the visitors had slumped to 116-7 in the second innings, still 149 in arrears. At that point it looked as though Anderson was on course for an innings victory in his first game as Red Rose Stewart and Joey Evison put on 182 for the eighth wicket in thrilling fashion to take Kent into the black, and even though Anderson had Stewart caught at cover for 130, Kent survived to finish on 328-8, with Evison unbeaten on a brilliantly gutsy 77 when the players shook off-spinner Chris Green took 4-104 and Tom Bailey 3-61 for Lancashire, who are still waiting for their first Championship victory of the season. By contrast, the draw ended a dismal run of four defeats for Daniel Bell-Drummond's side. Needing to bat almost all day to avoid defeat, Kent chose to open the batting with specialist leg-spinner, Matt Parkinson, who was doing the job for the first time in his county career against his former it was Parkinson's opening partner, Ben Compton, who was the first batsman to go when he was lbw to Bailey for six in the sixth over of the removed their opponents' most adhesive batsman, Lancashire then dismissed Parkinson for four three overs later when he turned a ball from Green into the hands of Josh Bohannon at backward short following hour was filled with appeals, none of them answered in the affirmative. Instead, Jaydn Denly and Bell-Drummond took their side to lunch on 74-2, the only alarm coming in the final over before the interval when Denly was struck a painful blow on the point of the elbow by Mitch equilibrium was then disturbed in an even more significant fashion four balls into the afternoon session when Bell-Drummond was dismissed for 13, Keaton Jennings sticking out his right hand to take a superb reflex catch at short leg off success began a golden half hour for Green, who had Tawanda Muyeye caught by Jennings for three and Jack Leaning, held at slip by Luke Wells from successive deliveries to complete a devastating spell in which he had removed three top-order batsmen in 15 only solace for Kent in this period came when Denly reached his maiden first-class fifty with a single off it seemed that Lancashire were not to be denied. Now bowling off-spin, Bailey knocked back Denly's off stump with a fine ball when the 19-year-old had made 57 and four balls later, he had Harry Finch caught at short leg by Jennings for Evison and Stewart then went on the attack in memorable fashion either side of tea. In the second over of the evening session, Stewart hit Mitchell Stanley for three leg-side sixes, reaching a 42-ball half-century in the process with five fours and four 43 minutes later, a cover-driven four off Green took Stewart to his 79-ball hundred, He had smashed eight sixes in addition to nine fours and he and Evison had set a new eighth-wicket first-class record for Kent against just when Kent were glimpsing safety, Stewart was caught at cover by Bailey for 130 and it needed Wes Agar to help Evison achieve a draw that must seem a little like a Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
