Three brothers who carried out three thefts across North Somerset in just 24 hours last month have been jailed.

The O'Briens pleaded guilty to stealing maintenance equipment from Churchill Academy and Sixth Form, two chainsaws from a car in Nailsea and nearly a thousand pounds worth of aluminium from outside Smart Systems in Yatton - at the end of June.

James and John Paul, who are 26 and 32 and both from Bristol - have been sentenced to ten months behind bars ... while 37 year old Michael, from Harrow, got seven months.