A takeaway meal from Chickoland worth £12 was stolen from a man in New Road at 6.30pm on Wednesday last week. The man put the meal on the ground while he engaged in an argument with a cyclist. When he turned round, his food had disappeared.

: Thieves stole a handbag left on a table at the Rose and Crown pub between 9pm and 10pm on Saturday. The handbag contained a London Underground rail pass worth £1,000.

Thieves stole a £100 mobile phone left unattended on a table in the Safeway superstore cafeteria while the diner went to fetch condiments on Monday at 10.30am.

Vandals smashed a small hole through the double glazed window of a ground floor flat at Avonbridge House, Bath Road between Friday and Sunday. The three-inch hole was made using an alcopop bottle found nearby.

A driver in a Ford Sierra made off with £8 of petrol from the Safeway superstore filling station at 10.30am last Wednesday.

A customer's mobile phone, worth £200, was stolen from Shoe Fayre in Borough Parade at about midday on September 18.

Vandals caused £200 damage when they smashed the front window of Chippenham Mobility Centre in New Road on September 18.

A stereo, amps and speakers worth £760 were stolen from a car parked in a garage in Sheldon Road on September 17.