PICTURES: Bristol has been promised a light show to remember this Christmas. After a disappointing display in Broadmead last year all the stops have been pulled out to put on a glittering show that will light up all the main shopping areas and the harbourside.

A police officer who was meant to stop Bristol shop-lifters stole two computer games and ruined his career.

Peter Cokell was permanently stationed at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, and had an unblemished record as a PC, yet he was caught on CCTV in HMV committing the crime he had spent six years trying to stamp out.

This large lump of an object had been occupying a space in the dining room for a couple of weeks.