Assault (3990)

The two incidents, which officers believe are linked, occurred between 5.22pm and 5.27pm on Saturday, March 6.

A 48-year-old man was attacked by a large group of men next to the ETap sign outside the ETap Hotel, Fratton Way, Portsmouth.

He was kicked and punched to the ground, struck around the head with a bottle and left unconscious.

Police in Lewisham are appealing for any witnesses to a rape in Beckenham on a Saturday afternoon.

It happened on 6 March in Beckenham Place Park, Lewisham at some point between 1600 - 1730hrs.

The victim was a 15-year-old girl.

The offender is described as:

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 53-year-old man from Kendal was assaulted as he walked his dog in the town last night.

Between 11pm - 11.45pm last night, Tuesday 9 March, the victim was approached by two males as he was walking his dog on a cycle path that runs alongside the play park area close to Valley Drive.

Police in Blackpool are appealing for information after a 26-year-old man had his boots stolen in a street robbery.

The victim was on Central Drive, just north of Bloomfield Road, at 1.30am yesterday (Tuesday 9 March) when he was approached by a man who tried to engage him in conversation.

Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses after a 13-year-old boy was robbed in Slough.

Between 6.45pm and 7pm on Saturday 20 February, the teenager was cycling in Salt Hill Park when he was approached by a group of about six or seven Asian youths.

The youths, who are all male, chased the teenager from the park along the Bath Road to Lansdowne Avenue.

Police in Bath are asking for help identifying a man they want to talk to about an assault in a city centre pub.

The suspect is described as:

Wiltshire Police are appealing for information following an assault which occurred on Saturday 16th January 2010 just before 10:30 pm at the Odeon cinema, Salisbury.

The victim, an 18 year old man from Durrington was watching a film with friends.

When the film ended an altercation ensued with another cinema goer which resulted in the assault.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a girl was assaulted in Lydney on Monday March 1.

The incident happened between 4.45pm and 5pm in Newerne Street.

The victim, a 17-year-old girl from Lydney, got off a bus from Gloucester and walked to the public toilets at the rear of Caplins Café.

At about 1am on Sunday 28 February 2010, the 21-year-old Middleton woman was in the New Inn, on Long Street, Middleton, when she went to help a woman who had been knocked to the floor in a minor disturbance.

As she was helping her, a man hit her in the left side of the face with a glass and punched and kicked her, before leaving the pub.

Just after 9pm on Monday 8 March 2010, police were called to the Horse and Jockey pub on London Road, Stockport by the ambulance service.

Officers arrived and found a 42-year-old man had been shot in the chest and left arm.

A man dressed in a balaclava and dark clothes had gone into the pub brandishing a shotgun and fired the weapon at the victim.

A pensioner was left lying unconscious with a broken nose by two robbers in Winstanley.

The attack on the 73-year-old man took place shortly after 12am on Sunday 7 March 2010, as the victim was walking home from the Poacher public house along Cambrian Crescent.

Two offenders approached the man and one of them asked him for a cigarette.

A man narrowly missed serious injury after a flammable liquid was thrown at him in Bolton.

At 10pm on Saturday 20 February 2010, a man approached door staff outside Courtney's Bar on Bradshawgate, after being ejected from the club.

He threw a container of flammable liquid that had been set on fire at a member of the door staff.

Gardai at Drogheda are investigating a serious assault which occurred outside a premises in the Harbour Road area of Clogherhead between 1.15am and 2.00am on the 7th of March, 2010.

A 25 year old male was seriously injured in the incident and was brought to Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2.30pm today - 9th March 2010.

Officers from Islington CID are keen to speak with a 21-year-old man known as Julian Torres-Kiedis or 'JTK'.

Islington CID are investigating an allegation of assault against a 27-year-old woman at an address in the N4 area of Islington in the early hours of Saturday 7 February 2009.

Police investigating an assault, which left a 42-year-old man with head injuries, believe his attackers had been at a party for Nottingham's African community.

The victim was hit with a glass bottle after being set upon by three men inside the Rainbow Pub, Carlton Road, Sneinton, at around 2am, on Sunday 7 March.