Bath families have second Christmas tree stolen . . . just hours after carol concert
Thieves have stolen the Christmas tree in Weston in Bath just hours after the village’s carol service.
It is the second tree to be taken in the past eight days, with the original one disappearing at the beginning of last week.
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Weston Christmas tree
Both were displayed outside the parish hall and had been paid for and decorated by local people who wanted to bring the community together over Christmas.
The first tree was later discovered in All Saints churchyard, ruined, with all the baubles broken.
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The second tree was found earlier this morning by PCSO Nickola Milsom who followed a trail of pine needles and baubles to Holcombe Green.
She called for assistance from her colleague Zoe Knowles and the pair carried it back to the High Street and redecorated it as best as they could.
After the first incident, people in the village rallied round to replace the tree and only put it up yesterday so nothing could happen to it ahead of last night’s carol service.
Councillor Colin Barrett (Con, Weston) said he was “gutted” that the same thing had happened again.
He said: “We had such a large crowd there last night, around 40 to 50 people, and all the children had lanterns, we sang carols and drank mulled wine. It was just a great evening.
“But now I am gutted. We didn’t put up the tree until the day of the carol service because we were worried this would happen.
“Last year we had a tree in the same place and nobody touched it. In fact there were extra baubles put on it.”
He added: “This isn’t a bad village, there are just a small number of people who do things like this.”
Comments
by jezer
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 6:38PM
“There have always been morons around, and I'm afraid there always will be.”
by 26sean
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 5:32PM
“mr chivers your not funny or shall we call you jake”
by Wealthy_Local
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 5:02PM
“Its not a very big tree is it? ive got a bigger one in the west wing, and nobody even uses the west wing! Ha Ha.”
by applecheeks
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 3:01PM
“Bring back the stocks I say. Might deter a few low life people, or as was mentioned, if the police knew who they were go to their homes, removed their wide screen TV's/game consoles etc, sell them and give the money to charity, let them know how it feels to be robbed.”
by Mr_Nemo
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 1:38PM
“Well done to the PCSOs!
But, whilst not condoning the actions of the low-life involved, I doubt that they could be described accurately as 'thieves'. As I understand it, 'theft' is the act of taking something with the intention of permanently depriving its rightful owner of it use - as it was left somewhere where it could be found easily, that situation would not seem to apply.”
by Wealthy_Local
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 1:14PM
“this is idiotic, after the first theft they should have put their hands in their pockets and chucked 50K on a new security system. Whats 50 thou right? not much for piece of mind, thats what.”
by clarysage50
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 1:02PM
“This a pretty low trick to play at Christmas time......unfortunately, even if the thief was caught there would be little or no punishment.
BTW, I'm not really impressed by Cllr Barrett's use of the word 'gutted' - believe me, if he knew just what it was like to be gutted (surgically), he would not be using the word......of course it may be that he has been mis-quoted in which case he has my apologies.”
by Hebrews12
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 12:17PM
“Someone's got their wires crossed here. The carols round the tree was last night but the tree is still there and has been all morning.”
by VigilanteGran
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 11:23AM
“There are some rotten people around, how mean. Plebs!!!!!!!!”
by harveysMaster
Wednesday, December 19 2012, 10:26AM
“Some one must know who did this people who do things like this love to tell others how 'big' they are. Perhaps rather than sending people like this to jail or 'community service' their address can be published and we can go round a take their iphone. Oh, sorry that would be against their human rights. We could of course stick them on the top of the tree,”